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Former Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has slammed the Ghana Education Service (GES) over recent happenings in the eduation sector between schools and their students.

It could be recalled that the Wesley Girls school recently refused a Muslim student from embarking on a fast on their campus.

The Muslim student was supposed to join the Islamic fasting period strictly observed by Muslims worldwide but the school disallowed the student on grounds of health complications.

There was also another battle between some Rastafarian parents and the Achimota school after their students were told they would only be enrolled into the school unless they shaved their dreadlocks.

The Rasta parents took the matter to the Human Rights Division of the High Court and won the court case with the Judge ordering the Achimota school to admit the students.

Assessing the turn of events in the education sector, Kwamena Duncan has called on the GES to sit up and take steps to address all issues affecting the sector.

According to him, the GES must review the rules and regulations governing the various schools to ensure no student's fundamental human rights are trampled on by school authorities.

Quoting Article 28 (clause 4) of Ghana's constitution which states ''no child shall be deprived by any other person of medical treatment, education or any other social or economic benefit by reason only of religious or other beliefs'', the former Minister said; ''There must not be another issue for us to be like get directionless and what happened at Wesley Girls quickly comes to mind in which a very minute, in my view, issue which rather that, as major [major] stakeholders in the building of this country that this minute issue virtually succeeded in crashing that people became passionate and forgot that this is our one country, one people and one destiny''.

"Ghana Education Service must move quickly," he stressed, adding the GES must not let these situations repeat themselves.