The Old Students of Ebenezer Senior High School have added their voice to the brouhaha surrounding Ghanaian musician, Samini and the Headmaster of the school.
The President of the schools’ Old Student Association, Lloyd Evans in a statement sighted by zionfelix.net questioned whether Samini was given an approval to meet the students after he sent a letter to the school authorities.
He stated that we are not living in a jungle for the musician to just walk to the school and interact with the students.
Lloyd Evans also questioned the subject of the musician’s meeting with the students.
Touching on a statement released by the Rastafari Council of Ghana asking the Ghana Education Service to call the Headmaster to order, the Old Student Association President said the statement doesn’t warrant his time despite the Council citing the Headmaster’s action as discriminatory.
Read the full statement below.
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It is very unfortunate that I have to step in to state my position with regards to the issue surrounding the Headmaster of Ebenezer SHS and Samini. I am putting up this post as the President of the Ebenezer Old Students Association and more importantly as an individual old student.
In fact a lot have been said on the issue and I must first
congratulate the Headmaster for keeping his silence all these while.
Some have insulted him with hash words (On other social media platforms) and
others have equally praised him for his stand. But in all these events he has
kept his quiet. This shows a very high level of maturity.
Under normal circumstances I would not have responded because I
do not take matters on social media serious neither do I believe in them. In
any case if push comes to shove one will have to come out.
I have also read the message or the statement from the Rastafari Council of
Ghana and the portions of the Constitution on Human Rights and Freedoms the
council quoted. Very interesting. Will however not go deep into the two
documents because the two documents do not warrant my time but just to say that
it is the right of the council to support Samini to lodge a complaint at the
GES and CHRAJ. Nobody can take that away from them.
My Information was that Samini wrote to the school to address the students. Fair enough. Did he Samini receive any approval from the school authorities?. Was he given a date and time for that address? What was he coming to address the students on? Was the school administration ready for such an encounter with the students. In what capacity was Samini coming to address the students? And more importantly what was the content of the address or the topic for discussions. In all these nobody has answered these critical questions.
The Headmaster has a responsibility to manage the school. He has
the right to take any decision in so far as the management of the school is
concern. He does not take instructions from even old students neither does he
take instructions from the general public to the extent that any Kofi, Ama and
Yaw can walk into the school to address students.
The GES has vested that power and authority in him and in him only to run the
school. The authority of the Headmaster cannot and I repeat cannot be
challenged. Samini cannot just walk to the school and demand to speak to the
students. Is it because he is a dance hall artist and therefore must be given a
red carpet treatment?
There are rules and regulations in every establishments and
these rules are not just there for the fun of it but for an orderly behaviour
and conduct for both internal and external public.
No individual or group of persons can just walk into an institution and demand
that they be given the chance to talk to the people over there. This is never
done anywhere.
Whatever decision the headmaster took at that material time was just right,
fit, proper and fair. We must learn to go through protocols and not to be
jumping the gun. We are not in the jungle.
At this point I will passionately appeal to all old students to desist from further discussions on this matter on any of the social media platforms. Let us use our limited resources and time to see how best we can join forces to help the school. We have a lot to do and therefore we need not spend our time on attention seekers.
Thank You
Lloyd Evans
President
