The Principal at the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in Ghana's Northern Region on Wednesday, 10 May prevented a student from continuing with her examination because she is pregnant.
According to James Awumi, husband of the affected student, Cecilia Awuni, the Principal, Ms Rukaya Alhassan, refused to allow his wife to write the exams despite numerous pleas by him on the phone to that effect and irrespective of assurances by the student that she was fit for the exams.
He told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, 11 May that his wife has been left traumatised after her sacking from school on the grounds of being pregnant.
Mr Awuni has, therefore, pleaded to the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Djaba, to intervene to stop the Principal from violating the rights of her wife as well as that of several other students who may have suffered similar fate at the hands of the principal.
According to the husband, his wife wrote three of six papers but was prevented from going ahead with the fourth by the Principal.
Meanwhile, Nana Agyeman, Head of the Public Relations Unit of the Ghana Nursing and Midwifery Council told Joy SMS host Kojo Yankson that: “I don’t think her rights have been violated”, even though he conceded “… there is no law in Ghana that bars pregnant students from writing exams”. “We offer advice and we advised her not to write the exams,” he added.
Source: Classfmonline
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The nurses and Midwifery Council is too backwards. The Principal, in my opinion shd be bow her head in shame in these day and age. Women are their own enemies.
***barred word*** People in authority misbehave and they get away with it.This u--seless of a principal should be sanction to prevent her and other ignoramus heads from inflicting this kinds of pains on other people
21st century Ghana!!! Incroyable!!!
IT IS ABOUT TIME SUCH PRIMITIVE PRACTICES IS STOPPED IN THESE SO CALLED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS. IF ALL TRAINING COLLEGES ARE DIPLOMA AWARDING INSTITUTIONS, THEY SHOULD THEREFORE ALLOW STUDENTS TO LEAD LIFE LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE POLYTECHNICS.
Why was the student barred from writing the examination. Since there is no law that debars a pregnant student from writing examination, the Principal did it. and that is where the rights of the student has been trampled on. As for the PRO, I am sure he does not what he was saying. The student must be allowed to write the examination without any restraints from the Principal if not, I suggest the student to take civil action against the Principal. People i authority must learn to live within the law and not by themselves.
A married woman is pregnant and u dont want her to write her exams yet the single ones keep doing abor*tions and u said nothing, is she going to come and re write after birth or she cant write at all cos if so then the principal is wrong since no law bans pregnant women from writing exams. Even JHS and SHS stodents involved in teenage pregnancy are allowed to write it. Why are u the one who pay her fees