Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum (Deputy Minister of Education) writes: After an unusual break, schools have re-opened, and candidates in JHS and SHS are going back to school. Academic work must go on amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
As I pray for divine protection for our kids and staff (teaching and non-teaching) in the various schools, I also advise them to adhere to the COVID-19 protocols as directed by Government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service and observe the practices as stipulated by the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service so as to protect themselves too.
As a Ministry, we are dedicated to protect our staff and students/pupils. Thus, Government has provided all the needed logistics and items for that. They, in turn, need to see the need to protect themselves and others by always taking notice of the protocols put in place by their various schools.
I assure parents that our children shall be fine. And to families who have their members out there providing any kind of service for the Government, the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service have the welfare of your loved ones at heart; and we shall protect and enhance them to deliver in trying times like this.
Let us all, in one accord, continue to advance the course of education in Ghana and constantly pray to God to bless our homeland Ghana and make it great and strong as the world searches for a cure for COVID-19
