I can’t be covering up interdicted Obuasi SHTS headmaster; I cautioned him over female students’ visits – Kumasi Mayor

Kumasi Mayor Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi has cautioned the interdicted headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School, Zakaria Abdulai, against permitting female students to visit his home, following concerns about his conduct. The mayor made this intervention to prevent further issues and avoid negative perceptions about the headmaster in Obuasi.

Boadi, who has known Abdulai for years, spoke to him after being alerted to the alleged misconduct during a visit to Obuasi. "I admonished him and asked him not to allow female students to come so that the perception being created about him in Obuasi would not be fuelled," Boadi said. These remarks come amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving 19 female students, leading to Abdulai's interdiction by the Ghana Education Service (GES) pending investigations.

Boadi rejected suggestions that he was protecting Abdulai from accountability, emphasizing that he has no direct supervisory authority over the headmaster and no influence over disciplinary decisions. "I don’t have any direct supervisory role over the headmaster. I don’t have anything to do with whether he was going to be sanctioned or not.

So I cannot, with any shred of imagination, be covering him up," Boadi stated. The matter is currently under investigation.