Wrong moves to Dirty GES Angers Prof Opoku Amankwaa As He Says GES is not a mushroom agency
The Director-General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Akwasi Opoku Amankwaa is boiling with anger at the so-called teachers' new information which has been in the public domain.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The Director-General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Akwasi Opoku Amankwaa is boiling with anger at the so-called teachers' new information which has been in the public domain.
His anger was a result of what he described as the wrong allegations leveled against the management of the GES to the effect that it has introduced uniforms for teachers in public schools without the knowledge and consent of the key stakeholders in the educational front or sector.
According to him, those who were blaming the GES in the connection of purported designing of the new uniforms for teachers were doing that without ignorance, saying that if indeed the uniforms for teachers were introduced by the GES it would be announced or officially launched to the public.
"I have seen these pictures of some purported GES teachers in a prescribed uniform for work circulating. GES is not a mushroom agency. It’s the largest Gov’t agency in Ghana. We employ more than half of all Gov’t employees," Prof. Amankwaa
He added that "If we want to introduce uniforms for teachers we won’t do that through social media and over the weekend. I guess it’s some group of teachers who’ve decided to have a uniform. Or it could even be photoshop.
According to Prof.Amankwaa "We may have to look for those in the pictures to first find out if indeed they’re teachers and if they’re what’s their motivation for the uniform.
He stressed that in this era of unionized labor GES cannot introduce a uniform for teachers without engaging the teacher unions. Issues relating to who pays, govt or individuals, the fabric, etc. would all have to be discussed.
He emphasized that any national project of this kind may have to be announced and possibly launched officially.
