The Ghana Education Service has directed the Headmistress of Achimota Secondary School, Mrs. Joyce Rhodaline Addo to grant admission to the two Rastafarian boys they dismissed because of the dreadlocks.
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The school authorities have faced serious backlash from social media users and industry players for the abnormal dismissal of the brilliant students because of their dreadlocks.
Well, former member of Parliament, Ras Mubarak reacted to the protest by saying that the school’s authorities breached the laws of the land and called for it to be reversed.
“What the authorities in Achimota school have done constitutes a breach of articles 21(1)(c), 25(1), 26(1) 28(3), and 28(4) of our constitution. They have humiliated those kids on the basis of the kids’ Rasta culture. Not accepting them into the school because of their dreadlocks is degrading treatment which is frowned upon under article 28(3).
“The school may have its rules, but those rules and all other rules and laws are subservient to the constitution of Ghana. The supreme law of the land is the constitution.
I hope the decision would be reversed, in the overall best interest of the school and the affected children,”
In recent developments, the Ghana Education Service through its Director-General, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwah has taken remedial action directing the authorities to admit the two students.
He told the Daily Graphic that the Head is not within the law to withdraw the admissions of the students on the basis that they are wearing dreadlocks.
Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwah told the Daily Graphic that it is illegal for the Head to deny students admission because they have dreadlocks.
So you cannot say that you will not admit someone on the basis of the person’s religious beliefs, and so, we have asked the Head to allow the children to be in the school,” he said.
