The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has been discharged from his duties.
In a letter dated October 17, 2022, the Office of the President announced the termination of Prof. Opoku-Amankwa’s appointment.
According to the letter, his skills are no longer required at the GES.
“The Ministry of Education has informed this Office that the exigencies that required your skills and expertise as Director-General of the Ghana Education Service do not exist any longer”, the letter stated.
Having been appointed in April 2017, a specific reference was made to Prof. Opoku-Amankwa’s secondment in January 2021 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
The contract was extended again in June 2021, but this extension, according to the letter, was in “contravention of the Human Resource Policy Frame and Manual of the Public Services Commission as it purports to extend your secondment beyond the 3-year maximum limit.”
Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa once went public saying the government’s much-touted Free Senior High School (SHS) policy was under review in the heat of the operational challenges facing second-cycle institutions.
He later denied the reports attributed to him after contradictions by the government officials in the education sector.
