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WATCH: Gov’t ‘punishes’ students in scorching sun just to wave at Nana Addo and Ouattara

By Clement Edward Kumsah
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Students from selected public basic schools were made to stand on the shoulders of some principal streets of Accra to wave at Nana Addo and his guest Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara.

Pupils of La Yahoshua JHS who obviously missed out on lessons were seen seated at the 37 Total Fuel station next to Golden Tulip hotel waiting to wave flags and hands at the Ghana’s current guest. The recent gas explosion at a fuel station wasn't enough to deter the authorities from piling up the children there.

According to a social media post by a journalist with Metro TV, after the ‘triumphant passage’ of Nana Addo and Ouattara, an attendant of the Total fuel station had to buy sachet water for them because their school authorities did not offer them any.

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Some Ghanaians, mostly parents have taken to social media to lament how young children were asked by their school authorities to line up on the sun along the streets of Accra to wave miniature flags at Presidents Akufo-Addo and Alassane Ouattara as they drove through the capital.

However, the Public relations officer of the Ghana Education Service Rev. Jonathan Betteh has downplayed anxieties over the several hour's pupils were made to stand in the scorching sun for the ‘presidential wave’.

 

Speaking on an Accra based radio station, he said “If the act is something so bad, the Regional Director of the GES wouldn’t have allowed that to happen. I do not see why we should seek permission from parents before taking them out to wave at dignitaries. There is no policy against children waving at visiting Presidents when they are in town. I honestly do not see anything wrong with the school children lined up to wave at a visiting President, I don’t think it is a big deal,”

But the irony is that on October 11, Ghana joined the world to commemorate International Day of the Girl, while the pupils from La Yohoshua JHS were sweating it out in the scorching sun, others from a high class school, Ridge Church JHS,  joined  the Gender Ministry to mark the day.

In the comfort of an airconditioned auditorium they acted in capacities like First Lady, Gender Minister, Doctor, Teacher etc.

 

primenewsghana.com/Ghana News

 

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