KASEC STUDENTS PROTEST OVER TRANSFER OF HEADMASTER (PAGE 47)

Students of the Kadjebi Asato Senior High School (KASEC) in the Volta Region have organised a peaceful demonstration to protest against the reported transfer of their Headmaster, Mr Musa Yamba Issahaku, from the school.
In a spontaneous reaction of “No” after the announcement at the morning devotion, the students numbering about 700, held placards with the inscriptions “ No Yamba, No KASEC, No Anniversary” and marched around the compound to display their disagreement with the transfer.
The staff of the school, led by the Assistant Headmaster in charge of Academic and the Chaplain, Mr Ben Owusu and Reverend A. K. Ofori, respectively, had a hard time in prevailing upon the student body not to take to the streets.
In the process, only the boys prefect and the girls prefect, the four, namely Francis Asare, Sylvester Ayivi, Leilla Abdella and Peace Avornyo, accompanied by the two teachers, Mr Owusu and Rev. Ofori, left the compound to present their petition to the Kadjebi District Director of Education, Mr D.M.K Dotse for onward transmission to the Director–General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Bernnerman Mensah.
In their petition, signed by 14 prefects, the students called on the authorities to allow the headmaster to be with them for their 50th anniversary celebration of the school which falls on October 3, 2009.
According to them, the hardworking and disciplined headmaster had been the brain behind the preparation of the celebration and it would be unfair to move him out of the school before the scheduled date.
According to the letter of transfer signed by the director-general of the GES, the headmaster was to hand over to his successor by September 1, 2009.
A cross-section of the tutors interviewed said they were not against the transfer but they pleaded for a bit of time.
The Headmaster, Mr Issahaku, who was posted to the school in 2003 and lifted the school from the doldrums to category “B”, according to the national rating, said in an interview that he was at the convenience of the director-general.