{"id":223893,"date":"2016-06-20T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223893"},"modified":"2016-06-20T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:59:18","slug":"teachers-masked-to-help-identify-attackers-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/teachers-masked-to-help-identify-attackers-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers masked to help identify attackers [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some female teachers of the St. John&#8217;s Primary 1&amp; 2\u00a0School at Accra Newtown, together with three officials of the\u00a0Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), have been taken through an identification session at the \u00a0Nima Divisonal Police Command, to assist the Police fish out some persons\u00a0who allegedly assaulted some teachers in the school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223919\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/red-face-4.jpg\" alt=\"red face 4\" width=\"767\" height=\"631\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a rather unusual form of identification, the faces of the female teachers were masked with red cloth, to protect\u00a0their identities, and also to protect them from possible attacks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223918\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/red-face-3.jpg\" alt=\"red face 3\" width=\"760\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teachers could not\u00a0identify suspects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the identification process however, the women could not identify\u00a0the suspects who carried out the attack among\u00a0the seventeen (17) persons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday June 7, some young men <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/15\/schools-closed-down-in-solidarity-with-assaulted-teacher\/\">beat up<\/a><\/strong><\/span> some female teachers in the school, after a pupil was punished by one of the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The Police have so far arrested about 17 people in connection with the incident, after GNAT and NAGRAT, questioned the silence of the police. \u00a0Last week, the school, which was closed down,\u00a0temporarily, still remains under lock and key.<\/p>\n<p>A video footage, which went viral on social media, shows a group of young men assaulting a female teacher for punishing a pupil in her class. \u00a0According to some teachers of the school, the pupil was asked by a female teacher to kneel in front of the class after she failed to read a lesson in class.<\/p>\n<p>The incident compelled the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), to demand the closure of the school and all surrounding government schools, until the perpetrators are brought to book.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Citi News\u2019<\/strong> checks in the area revealed that, the school is currently under lock and key.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, most of the teachers in the surrounding schools have boycotted classes in solidarity with their colleagues in the school.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), who also happens to be a teacher in one of the government schools, Benjamin Bediako, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that they will not rescind their decision until the men are arrested. \u201cThis is the first time I have heard of a pupil going out to call thugs to come and beat a teacher in the school. 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