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Let students with dreadlocks be in school – GES to Achimota School

By Laud Nartey
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Let students with dreadlocks be in school – GES to Achimota School

The Rastafarian student was asked to cut his hair before admission to Achimota School

The Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has told authorities at the Achimota School to allow students with dreadlocks to be in school.

This comes after the school is reported to have rejected the admission of students with dreadlocks.

Prof Opoku-Amankwa told the Daily Graphic that “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 school.”

Scores of Ghanaians launched a defense for the two young dreadlocks students who were denied admission at Achimota High School.

A former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute has said the refusal of the Achimota School authorities to admit a students with dreadlocks amounts to perverse backwardness.

He has therefore commended the GES for directing the school authorities to admit the students.

In a tweet, the leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) said “This day and age, a school in Africa will not admit a boy because he is a Rastafarian and wears his hair in that natural form.  Call it perverse backwardness. Thank you, GES!”

https://twitter.com/GabbyDarko/status/1373243043680256000?s=20

By Laud Nartey|editors.3news.com|Ghana

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Laud Nartey is an online editor with current affair team at Media General, operators of TV3 Ghana, 3News.com and more. Email: Laud.Nartey@editors.3news.com

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