Rejoinder: Regional Minister Must Be Charged For Manslaughter--Lecturer

My attention has been drawn to a story with the above heading published on Ghanaweb as referenced below;

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Ashanti-Regional-Minister-must-be-charged-for-manslaughter-Lecturer-608234

The story done by mynewsgh.com attributed a lot of misleading statements to me that has the propensity to affect my hard earned reputation in national discourse and the intellectual community as a lecturer.

Even though, I spoke with a reporter of newsgh.com on the canker of epidemic that has engulfed the Kumasi Academy, I am amused by the above publications because it is far from my position on the ensuing issues, as aired to the news source.

For the purpose of fairness, I want to state that I take exception from the story as it does not fairly represent my views on the matter. The views put together in the story are those of the news site. Now, my position.

It would be recalled that the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Akufo Addo, visited the Kumasi Academy for its 50th Anniversary. At the time, the school had loss some students. In the address of the President and in fact, through out the program, the issue of the death of students of the school was never revealed.

This situation was what I described as lack of diligence on the part of the Regional minister for failing to brief the president on the reality on the grounds. As a regional minister he is in a better position to know the predicaments of the Region especially about that catastrophe that hit KUMACHA.

Upon arrival of the president in the Ashanti Region, the Regional minister could have briefed the president on that precarious situation in the school.

It is obvious that the Regional minister was either hiding something from the president or a failure on HIS (MINISTER) part and those who matter to brief the president about the situation and must be blamed for the communication gab left between the Region and the president. That was exactly my response on the matter to the news site and I have since not changed my position.

I am extremely surprised that such an unambiguous position from me could be distorted.

I emphatically state that I disassociate myself from the story and demand a retraction and an apology from the source of publication.

Yarhands Dissou Arthur
(Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, Kumasi)