Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has been fired.
In a letter dated Monday, October 17, 2022, the Office of the President declared that Prof. Opoku-appointment Amankwa's had been terminated.
According to a letter from the Ministry of Education, "the exigencies that needed your abilities and knowledge as Director-General of the Ghana Education Service no longer exist."
Although Prof. Opoku-Amankwa was appointed in April 2017, explicit mention was made of his secondment from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in January 2021. (KNUST).
The contract was once more extended in June 2021, but the letter claimed that this extension "contravenes the Public Services Commission's Human Resource Policy Frame and Manual as it seeks to extend your secondment beyond the 3-year maximum limit."
Professor Opoku-Amankwa has been told to go back to KNUST.
The final line of the letter from the Presidency, which was signed by Nana Bediatuo Asante, Secretary to the President, said, "The President appreciates you for your service to the nation and wishes you the very best in your future endeavors."
The Vice President, Chief of Staff, Education Minister, Board Chairperson, Ghana Education Service, Vice Chancellor of KNUST, and Registrar of the same institution are all copied on the letter.
In response to the operational difficulties second-cycle schools were experiencing, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa once said in public that the government's much-lauded Free Senior High School (SHS) policy was being reviewed.
When government officials in the education sector contradicted him, he subsequently refuted the reports that had been made about him.
Despite protests from some teacher unions, President Akufo-Addo extended Anthony Boateng's tenure of employment as the Deputy Director-General (Management Services) of the Ghana Education Service for an additional year in August.
He is still contributing to the creation of the Cabinet-approved National Education Institute for the Ministry of Education.
