Regional News of Friday, 3 February 2012

Source: GNA

Kumasi teachers worried about increased assaults on teachers

Kumasi, Feb.3, GNA - Teachers in the Kumasi metropolis, have expressed grave concern about the continued assaults and brutalities on teachers generally in the course of performing their duties in the classroom.

What they regard as even more serious is the involvement of enlightened people who are supposed to be highly respected and occupy important positions in society in this dastardly act.

Addressing a press conference in Kumasi on Thursday, in reaction to the recent reported cases of assault on teachers, Mr Victor deGraft-Etsison, Metro Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), warned that teachers will be forced to advise themselves if such obnoxious acts did not stop immediately.

Mr deGraft-Etsison cited one instance where Nana Akwasi Agyeman, a former mayor of Kumasi, led gun-wielding macho men to arrest some teachers o'