Public schools in Koforidua closed down

Most public schools in the Koforidua Municipality have closed down in response to the strike action declared by Public Sector Workers Unions over the management of their second tier pension scheme.

Most of the schools visited by the Ghana News Agency in the Koforidua Municipality on Thursday were closed.

Where the schools are opened, it was only the pupils who were seen playing around without their teachers.

At the Methodist Model Junior High School at Asokore, near Koforidua, the pupils who spoke to the Ghana News Agency said, their head teacher has asked them to go home.

Mr Jonas Sasu Mensah, the headmaster of the Junior High School (JHS) said, after receiving the letter received from Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT)to embark on the strike, he told the pupils to go home.

He said, the pupils did not comply and rather demanded to know when they should return.

Apart from Mr Mensah, there was no other teacher at the school.

At the SDA Demonstration Basic and Junior High schools, there was no teacher in on duty but some of the trainee teachers on attachment were seen standing and chatting amongst themselves.

At the Sordae Zion Schools and the Catholic Schools at Soredae, the classrooms were all locked up.