Ghana Education News can confirm that a public school Social Studies teacher has been alleged to have engaged in acts of sodomy with 19 pupils in his school.
This sad news comes at a time when the general Ghanaian public is rooting for the Proper Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill to be passed.
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has condemned an alleged act of Sodomy between a Social Studies teacher and 19 pupils of the School.
The School where the alleged act is said to have taken place is the Kulpi Junior School located in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region.
In all Nineteen boys in the school are said to have been victims of the act. The ministry has therefore condemned the act it described as cruel.
According to the Ministry, one Mr. Nantomah Musah Otabel is the teacher behind the barbaric act and abuse of the schoolboys.
The ministry has also commended the affected boys for their boldness in coming out to make this sad news public.
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The necessary steps have been taken by the ministry with support from the Guidance and Counselling Unit of the Ghana Education Service, the District Social Welfare as well as the Ghana Police to ensure the traumatized boys receive counseling.
The Ghana Police have also taken over the case.
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It has further entreated the general public to be vigilant and to report such unscrupulous individuals who engage in all manner of unlawful acts.