The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has harshly criticized the Ghana Education Service for asking several Senior High School principals to resign for charging unauthorized fees to new pupils.According to them, as of Monday morning, the seven headteachers in the Ashanti area had not received the letters requesting them to resign, and had only seen the letters circulating on social media.
According to Zakaria Suleman Yeboah, the Ashanti regional chairman of CHASS, who spoke to Citi News, the aforementioned headmasters were also not engaged on the topic prior to the publication of the letters. “None of them has received any letter to that effect, they heard the news on social media and they are seriously traumatised. As we speak, they are not themselves and I believe that it wasn’t the right thing to be done,” Mr Suleman Yeboah stated.
Meanwhile, CHASS has raised concern over the claims made against the 11 Senior High School principals around the country.
The Conference, on the other hand, made it clear that it will not tolerate its members collecting unlawful fees.
The national CHASS president, Rev. Father Stephen Owusu Sekyere, spoke exclusively to Citi News at the Ashanti regional education office after accompanying seven interdicted headmasters to a meeting. He noted that their engagements with the headmasters revealed that some of the allegations are true while others, according to the headmasters, are false.
He further stated that the present scenario has caused great dissatisfaction, resentment, dread, and terror in numerous schools.
As a result, he is urging the Ghana Education Service to temper justice with mercy by cautioning headmasters who may be found liable after investigations.
Rev. Father Owusu Sekyere also urged the key parties to conduct quick inquiries into the problem in order to put the matter to a close as soon as feasible.
CHASS has so strongly advised headmasters across the country to rigorously adhere to the harmonized prospectus and avoid collecting unapproved fees.
According to Rev. Father Stephen Owusu Sekyere, national president of CHASS, this will avoid similar problems from occurring in the future.
