{"id":93754,"date":"2015-02-23T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=93754"},"modified":"2015-02-24T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:36:40","slug":"npp-warns-govt-over-attempts-to-punish-headteachers-over-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=93754","title":{"rendered":"NPP warns gov’t over attempts to punish headteachers over demo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has cautioned government against any attempt to sanction or punish head teachers of the schools whose \u00a0pupils joined the party\u2019s \u2018W\u0254n Gbo\u2019 demonstration.<\/p>\n

They say such attempt will portray the government in a bad limelight.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”F5s5xHX3WBZheiXfLpydyv1vUpuk5BJR”]The NPP hit the street last Wednesday<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to protest what they say is inconsistent power supply and the worsening economic situation in the country of which some pupils joined in the exercise.<\/p>\n

Some of the pupils who joined the demonstration told Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Pearl Akanya Ofori that \u201cWe are joining because we don\u2019t have light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, government has threatened to deal with the head teachers who allowed the pupils to take part in the protest<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

But the NPP disagrees saying \u201cnobody can suppress the expression of the school kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammy Awuku argued that \u201cif they [pupils] are going to have their homework done and they know that there is no electricity…It shouldn\u2019t be somebody from the opposition to tell them there is blackout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m throwing a serious warning to the government and its allies that they will be committing a serious thing against our democratic culture. Nobody should try and hide behind an establishment that teachers who partook in the demonstration or the children who were shouting because of unreliable power supply are going to be punished for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government should not dream of even traveling that path because that will sink this government, because I can see danger ahead if they try to travel that far,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

In a related development, the four head teachers who allegedly allowed the pupils to join in the demonstration have subsequently written an apology letter to the GES and asked for forgiveness.<\/p>\n

They \u00a0include Ernestina Ofori Atta of Liberty Avenue 1&4 primary; Christiana Hanson Nortey, Mantse Tackie 1 primary; Lucy Kanyaguay Adego of the Ernest Brew Memorial Basic School and Robert Amankra, Liberty Avenue 3 primary.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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