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My son got a warm welcome at Achimota School – Mother of Rasta student

By George Nyavor
Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea was earlier denied admission at Achimota school because of his dreadlocks
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Mother of one of the two Rastafari students earlier denied admission to Achimota School has revealed her son got a warm welcome when he entered the school again on Thursday to be enrolled, following a court ruling that compelled the school to do so.

Madam Maana Myers accompanied her son, Oheneba Nkrabea, to the popular school on Thursday, June 3 and said he was welcomed by one of the school’s prefects.

"It was the day students’ prefect who approached us in a very warm and nice manner and asked Oheneba whether he was a day student or a boarder and she said you are going to be our school son," she told Joy News.

She said the prefect also gave the assurance that "nobody was going to do anything to him and if he had any problem, he should just approach her".

There had been fears that the high court ruling in the landmark case that ordered the school to enrol Oheneba and Tyron Marhguy in spite of their dreadlocks could prove dire for the students after their admission.

Many had speculated that the school, unhappy about the ruling, could frustrate the students'.

The prestigious school had turned down the student’s admission on grounds that their dreadlocks flouted their rules on decency and acceptable hairstyle.

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The school appealed the ruling and applied for a stay of execution of the court order in an attempt to go to war with the parents of the students.

But the Attorney-General later appealed to the school to withdraw the stay of execution of application while the appeal process goes on, which the school did. 

The high court, presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei Addo, ruled that preventing the students from enrolment because of their hairstyle was an infringement on their fundamental right to education.

Achimota’s refusal to accept the students became very topical and divided the public opinion sharply.

After failed negotiations between Achimota School, the Ghana Education Service and the parents of the two dreadlocked students, the parents took the matter to court.