The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) have expressed their displeasure on the recent attack on Mr. John Kwashi Akey, an ICT teacher at the Three Town SHS by a student.
The press statement from GNAT follows the recent attack by a Form 3 Visual Arts student in the Three Town SHS in the Volta Region. The teacher, John Akey Kwashi who teaches Information Communication Technology (ICT) was allegedly stabbed for preventing the final year Visual Arts student from bullying a junior student.
Sources at the school say the incident happened last Wednesday, August 11, 2021, at about 12:50 pm behind the ICT Laboratory (Lab).
Before the incident, the teacher who was teaching in the computer lab heard some noise behind the facility. He went out there to find the suspect, Akakpo, bullying first-year students.
The teacher then intervened to stop the bullying.This did not go down well with Akakpo. He got offended and pushed the teacher in readiness to fight him. As the teacher tried to retreat, the student took out a cutter to stab the teacher in the stomach. The teacher blocked the attack with his hand, thereby sustaining a deep cut in his left upper arm.
GNAT APPALLED BY THE INCIDENT
GNAT through a press release dated 13th August, 2021 registered their disdain of the incident.
“We wish to register our disdain for such perverse acts of learners and parents assaulting teachers at any slight opportunity, even when such teachers have not provoked them, or only taken measures to correct errant learners for their own good and the good of their parents themselves.”
In the letter, GNAT claimed that some individuals have intervened and are trying to grant bail for the 19 year old student, Gilbert Akakpo. GNAT suspects these individuals are even planning for Gilbert to write the impending exams.
The letter continued to say, “We are by this statement demanding the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service, the Police and the School Authorities and all stakeholders ensure that Master Gilbert Akakpo is taken through the rigours of the law… to serve as a deterrent to anysuch wayward learners.”
GNAT stated that they are following the case keenly and their next course of action will be determined by the actions taken by the Director General of Education and his Directors in the Volta Region.
Read full letter below.
