British-Ghanaian actress and television presenter, Ama Konadu Abebrese, has applauded management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) for ordering authorities at the Achimota School to admit two students with dreadlocks.
In a post sighted by African Entertainment on her Official Facebook page, Ama Konadu Abebrese said: “I applaud Ghana Education Service for this. I was actually surprised that the school were being discriminatory against pupils with dreadlocks in the first place.”
What happened?
Authorities of Achimota School in Accra had denied two first-year students with dreadlocks admission after being posted to the school by the Computer School Placement System.
The headmaster of the school came under pressure over the school’s decision not to admit the two students.
A section of Ghanaians described the decision of the Achimota School as an abuse of human right.
Raswad Menkrabea, the father of one of the two students with dreadlocks had complained that his son had been denied admission simply because he had a dreadlocks.
Menkrabea had threatened to challenge the public school policy on the length of hair his son is allowed to grow, intimating that his hairstyle did not breach the 1992 constitution of Ghana.
”Comrades and friends, this morning, the school authorities of Achimota School claimed that their rules do not allow students with dreadlocks to be admitted,” he had complained on Facebook.
”The school authorities denied two brilliant dreadlock students from being admitted after having been posted there by the Computer School Placement System. My son was one of the affected children and the other student was also refused on the same grounds,” according to him.
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