Breaking|| Akufo-Addo sacks the Director-General of GES

Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has been dismissed. This comes after the President of the Land, His Excellency Akufo-Addo announces the termination of his appointment in a letter dated  Monday, October 17, 2022.

According to the letter issued, “The Ministry of Education has informed this Office that the exigencies that required your skills and expertise as Director-General of the Ghana Education Service do not exist any longer”.

He was appointed in April 2017, with which a specific reference was however made to Prof. Opoku-Amankwa’s secondment in January 2021 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

The contract was, extended again in June 2021 but according to the letter, this extension was in “contravention of the Human Resource Policy Frame and manual of the Public Services Commission as it purports to extend your secondment beyond the 3-year maximum limit.”

Due to this reason, the former Director General has been instructed to return to the KNUST.

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