Young Peoples and Human Rights Ghana

The Management of Takoradi Polytechnic has faulted Daily Graphic's reportage on the dismissal of a Lecturer accused of forcing students into lesbianism. According to them, the Paper without any proof concluded that many students have been converted into lesbians. It also challenged the Paper’s claim that, female students were being denied deserving examination marks for disregarding the lesbian lecturer’s sexual advances. The school’s Management is therefore demanding a retraction of these statements and an apology from the Daily Graphic for harming the Polytechnic’s reputation. The following is the Polytechnic’s full statement: The attention of the Management of Takoradi Polytechnic has been drawn to newspaper publications and radio broadcasts concerning the dismissal of Miss. Sheba Quartey, Senior Instructor at the Department of Fashion Design and Technology of the Polytechnic and wishes to react as follows: -The Polytechnic took the decision to dispense with services of Miss. Qu

May 28, 2011 at 1:37pm A Mathematics teacher at Adissadel College (ADISCO) in Cape Coast has been dismissed by the school authorities for sodomising some of the students. The gay teacher, Richard Atta Panyin, was alleged to have abused six students of the school but only one of them was bold enough to reveal his ordeal to the authorities. The victim (name withheld) is said to have fallen sick, and when he was interrogated by doctors at the hospital where he had been sent, he unravelled the Maths teacher's unholy activities. According to an impeccable source at the school, Panyin, who had previously taught at St Augustine's College, had been sacked for a similar offence in his previous school and later relocated to ADISCO in late 2010. It said the activities of Panyin, who is married with three children, came to light when the sick student identified him to the doctor attending to him, who in turn reported the teacher to the ADISCO authorities. It indicated that Panyin appeared