The Education Ministry has assured students and parents of Chiana Senior High School that the Ghana Education Service disciplinary action taken against the eight students at the school will be reviewed by the close of day today.

This was after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo intervened in the case of the eight senior high school students of Chiana who have been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for insulting the President, after the President’s attention was drawn to it.

In an interview with the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum on Sompa News Friday, the minister directed the GES to consider an alternative disciplinary action instead of dismissal.

The female students were dismissed by the Ghana Education Service for insulting President Akufo-Addo in a video they recorded and shared on social media.

They are students at the Chiana Senior High School in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region and were suspended last year prior to the dismissal which the Ghana Education Service says is to serve as a deterrent to other students.

But the education minister said an alternative punishment would be meted out to the students instead of being dismissed.

The Bosomtwe constituency legislator also touched on the complaints of parents about exorbitant school fees being charged by some private schools in the country as well as the high prices of textbooks and has tasked the National Inspectorate Authority to investigate the matter as soon as possible.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/Nana Yaw Boamah