The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced disciplinary sanctions against teachers of Twene Amanfo Senior High Technical School in Techiman following allegations that they physically assaulted a male student in an incident that attracted widespread public attention after footage of the confrontation circulated on social media.
The proposed sanctions include formal reprimands and the removal of the teachers from their respective responsibilities as Masters on Duty. These measures form part of recommendations submitted by an investigative committee established by the school’s management to examine the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Deputy Director General of the GES in charge of Quality and Access, Dr Issahaque Munwaru, disclosed the disciplinary recommendations during an interview on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Monday, November 2, 2026.
He explained that the affected teachers would also undergo guidance and counselling, alongside the students involved in the incident, as part of efforts to address the underlying issues. Additionally, the school intends to recover from the teachers the medical expenses incurred in treating the students who sustained injuries.
Dr Munwaru indicated that the teachers would be formally reprimanded and relieved of their duties as Masters on Duty, meaning they would no longer be entrusted with the responsibilities associated with supervising students in that capacity.
Providing further insight into the circumstances that preceded the confrontation, he said preliminary investigations suggested that the teachers allegedly assaulted the students after discovering that some of them had been bullying their colleagues and demanding money from them.
According to the Deputy Director General, initial findings indicated that certain students had been using the metallic components of their belts to whip colleagues who refused to surrender money demanded from them.
Despite acknowledging the alleged bullying and extortion involving some students, Dr Munwaru insisted that the teachers had no justification for resorting to physical violence. He emphasised that the GES Code of Conduct expressly prohibits teachers and other educational personnel from administering physical punishment or engaging in conduct capable of causing bodily pain to students.
He maintained that the existence of disciplinary challenges among students did not authorise teachers to take the law into their own hands, stressing that appropriate institutional procedures must be followed when dealing with offences committed within educational establishments.
“The law does not permit anything that will inflict pain on the child,” he stated.
Dr Munwaru further explained that the conduct attributed to the teachers amounted to professional misconduct under Part Three, Section Eight, Subsection A of the GES Code of Conduct.
He assured the public that the Service remained committed to enforcing its regulations against corporal punishment, physical abuse and other forms of inappropriate treatment within schools.
Under the established professional guidelines, teachers are prohibited from subjecting students to corporal punishment, compelling them to maintain painful physical positions, threatening them with bodily harm or engaging in acts of assault.
The Deputy Director General noted that the GES routinely sensitises teachers to their professional obligations and the provisions of its Code of Conduct through institutional orientation programmes, professional learning communities and continuing professional development initiatives.
He nevertheless cautioned that educators who engage in similar misconduct in the future should expect considerably harsher disciplinary consequences, indicating that the Service would adopt a more stringent approach towards repeated violations.
“Any further misconduct along the same line will not receive the same level. It is going to be more punitive,” he warned.
Dr Munwaru also disclosed that the GES was collaborating with the relevant security authorities investigating the incident following the arrest of the teachers by the Bono East Regional Police Command.
He said the Service would make the necessary information and assistance available to investigators to facilitate the police inquiry, while simultaneously pursuing its own internal disciplinary procedures.
The development underscores the GES’s position that allegations of bullying, intimidation and extortion among students must be addressed through established disciplinary mechanisms rather than physical punishment by teachers.
