After a student from the Municipal 2 Junior High School (JHS) led a group of young men to beat his teacher in revenge for punishing the student, teachers in the southern cluster of schools within the Krowor Municipal Assembly (KroMA) withheld their services.
Last Monday, the teacher, Mr. Moses Onyameasem, who is the JHS 3 student class teacher, was beaten by the student and his gang after the teacher was reported to have given him two cane strokes when he found him loitering on the school compound when classes were in session.
Confirming the incident to the Daily Graphic yesterday, Ms Justina Djaba, Municipal Director of Education, said a report reaching her suggested that their Mathematics instructor asked the student and some of his mates to stand up after they failed to present a homework he had given them.
However, the boy stormed out of the classroom and was loitering when he was assaulted by Mr. Onyameasem, and when the teacher tried to punish the boy, he fled home, only to return in a Mercedes Benz Sprinter bus with a gang of around 10.
The director said that the gang unexpectedly hit the teacher who was marking some exercise books in the school under a tree and beat him up.
He was struck with an object that resulted in a deep wound, and until his fellow teachers rushed to save him and sent him to the LEKMA Polyclinic, where he was treated and discharged, the mob was still beating him.
On receiving the report, Ms. Djaba said she went to the Kpeshie District Police Command to lodge a complaint, and together with the District Police Commander, she went to the polyclinic to visit the victim to check him out.
Ms Djaba said that four other people, including a woman who was identified as a student’s aunt, went to the school to physically attack and harass the remaining teachers after the victim was taken to the hospital.
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The teachers’ union within the cluster, most of which are members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), subsequently withdrew its services.
Contrary to claims that the schools had been closed down, she said it was the teachers in the southern cluster of KroMA schools who had chosen to stay home until their safety could be assured.
She, however, claimed that some police officers had been sent by the District Police Command to protect lives and property in the school.
Last Tuesday, Ms. Djaba said there was an emergency meeting between the Regional Director of Education, the Regional Inspector of Schools, the Municipal Director of Education and her staff, the District Police Chief, Mkpor Mantse, the Traditional Authority Delegate, the Regional Parliament Member, KroMA Circuit Head Teachers, as well as teachers and students, to deliberate on the matter.
She said another meeting will take place to decide on the way forward.
Ms. Djaba said that Mr. Onyameasem was doing well and responded to therapy.
“Since the incident, I have visited him, and since my last visit today (yesterday), I can confirm that he is doing well,” she said.
In Nungua, the police said no arrests had been made.
Emelia Ennin Abbey, meanwhile, claims that a medical form was given to the teacher by the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police Affia Tenge, after the head teacher of the school, Mr. Roger Asempa, reported the incident to the Nungua Police.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
