The Minority in Parliament has called for the immediate dismissal of the Director General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment NaCCA, Professor Samuel Ofori Bekoe and the Board Chair of the Council over what it describes as gross negligence in the inclusion of LGBTQ related content in a withdrawn Physical Education teacher manual.
The demand follows claims by the Member of Parliament for Assin South Rev John Ntim Fordjour that the government was subtly promoting an LGBTQ agenda through teacher manuals and other instructional materials used in schools.
Amid the controversy, NaCCA withdrew printed copies of a Senior High School teacher manual after admitting that portions of the Year Two Physical Education and Health Elective Teacher Manual dealing with Gender Identity were inconsistent with Ghanaian culture norms and values.
The Council has since released a revised version of the manual, which it says reflects national values and presents the subject from a biological perspective.
Addressing the media on behalf of the Minority caucus on Thursday January 15, the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo Vincent Ekow Assafuah said the situation exposed a major failure of leadership and oversight at NaCCA, amounting to a serious breach of public trust.
He argued that the printing distribution and subsequent withdrawal of the manuals had caused financial losses to the state and insisted that the leadership of the Council must be held accountable.
“We demand the dismissal of the Director General of NaCCA and the Chairman of the Board for failure of oversight and breach of public trust. NaCCA is now telling us, assuming without admitting, that the document was developed by the NPP government in 2024. If you do not believe in it, why proceed to print it in 2025?
“That has resulted in financial loss to the state because these are manuals that were printed and distributed nationwide,” he stressed.