By Emmanuella Erica Bruce
The National Women’s Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mavis Hawa Koomson, has waded into the discussions allegations of sexual abuse involving 19 students of Obuasi Senior High Technical School with a call for urgent and transparent investigations into how systems meant to prevent harm from coming to students failed.
Hawa Koomson in a statement issued on Tuesday, November 03, 2026, said the allegations against the school’s headmaster, Zakaria Abdulai, point to broader failures in the protections and safeguards that should shield students. In her view, if some complaints may have been brought to the attention of school authorities as far back as March 2026, while institutional records reportedly suggest similar misconduct dating back to 2021are true, then the system for protection itself failed.
Although the Ghana Education Service has interdicted the headmaster, with other state institutions also issuing statements on the matter, Ms Koomson insists that more decisive action is needed.
She has called on the Ghana Police Service to investigate the allegations comprehensively and scrutinise the actions and inactions of school authorities, district directors of education and other officials who should have probably acted sooner.
She also urged the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to strengthen safeguards and other systems in schools through confidential reporting channels, toll-free telephone access, and counselling departments.
As part of efforts to demand justice for the alleged victims, the NPP Women’s Wing plans to organise a peaceful demonstration in Obuasi on Friday, November 06, 2026.
The demonstration is expected to call for justice for the students and improved protection for girls in schools.
Ms Koomson has also appealed to Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to intervene, stressing that the matter should be treated as a national concern beyond political affiliations.
Below is the statement;
