Silent protest hits GES over Aheto’s re-assignment

Some officials of the Ghana Education Service (GES), have expressed worry about the removal of Mr. Charles Aheto-Tsegah as the Acting Director-General of GES.

The officials, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on condition of anonymity, described Mr. Aheto-Tsegah as a “friendly old boy of the house,” with superlative command over the functions of the GES.

They said the news of his re-assignment to a unit yet to be started within the GES as director, was an indictment on his professional integrity, and added that, “The move is not just unfair, but also unprecedented in the history of the Service.”

The officials said Mr. Aheto-Tsegah had a genuine case to pursue at the law court, if he so wished since to them, “Charles won the post of Deputy Director-General on merit, and so the worst thing anyone could have done to him was to send him back to his original position of Deputy Director-General”.

According to the officials, the announcement of Mr. Aheto-Tsegah’s re-assignment came as a shock, and they would wish that the President could take a second look at the decision, in order to prevent any build-up of tension in the system, considering the huge number of admirers he has.

Mr. Aheto-Tsegah, a former Deputy Director-General of the GES, has been acting as Director-General, since Madam Benedicta Naana Biney retired from the service last year as the Director-General.

President John Mahama, last week, re-assigned Mr. Aheto-Tsegah to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment of the GES as Executive Director, while Mr. Jacob Kor, Central Regional Director of the GES and the Greater-Accra Regional GES Director Mrs. Elizabeth De- Souza moved in as Acting Director-General and Acting Deputy Director-General respectively.