The lawyer of the two Rastafarian students who were denied admission into the prestigious Achimota School has revealed that the students are to return to school by next week.
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According to Ras Tetteh Wayo, they will have to go to the school to continue with the registration process to have the students enrolled to aid academic works.
This comes after the Accra High Court’s Human Rights Division ordered Achimota School to enroll Tyron Iras Marhguy and Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea on Monday, May 31, 2021.
The court, chaired by by Justice Gifty Agyei Addo, found that the laws in question could not impede the two students’ fundamental human rights.
Mr. Wayo further revealed that they will sue for contempt should the school insist on denying the two students admission into the school.
According to him, the court has found that the school’s laws infringe on students’ rights and that adherence is not a problem for the school.
“The ruling states that they have the right to manifest their religion and that will be through their hair so they are coming back to the school with the blessing of the court”,
“We don’t think the school can order them to cut their hair once they start,” he added.
As a reminder, the students filed a lawsuit against the school’s board of governors, the Minister of Education, the Ghana Education Service, and the Attorney General in order to have their fundamental human rights respected.
They were praying that the court will declare that the failure and or refusal of the 1st Respondent, Achimota School Board of Governors to admit or enroll the Applicant on the basis of his Rastafarian religious inclination, beliefs, and culture characterized by his keeping of Rasta is a violation of his fundamental human rights and freedoms guaranteed under the 1992 constitution, particularly Articles 12(1), 23, 21(1)(b)(c).
