Executives of the Ghana Association of Teachers of English (GATE) are accusing their President  James Adjei of hiding behind the Ebola scare to avoid accountability.

Vice -Secretary, Isaiah Adzi-Godi claims that the cancelation of the Association’s annual conference which was to be held in Ho, Volta Region, due to reports of a possible Ebola outbreak was master-minded by Mr. Adjei. But insisted the event will be held as scheduled.

It is slated for September 1 to 5 this year and will bring together English tutors from across the country to discuss and find practical solutions to the falling standards of the English language in Ghana and Africa at large.

Few weeks ago, Mr. Adjei announced the calling off of the annual conference becauase of the Ebola scare.

So far, 1,552 people have died of the Ebola virus in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria with over 3,000 cases recorded.

But the Association's President, James Adjei maintains the conference was cancelled to avoid any outbreak of Ebola in the country espcially since Ghana was going to host other teachers from other parts of Africa.

“The fear is that we are bringing members from all over the country and sometimes members from other countries joining us and we don’t have machines to test whether anyone has the virus and so you never can tell who is coming from outside or within who is having the virus and so prevention is better than cure,” he maintained.

Vice -Secretary of the Association Isaiah Adzi-Godi said since Mr. Adjei assumed office about four years ago, there has not been any occasion where he had rendered account.

“We the national executive members anytime we ask him to render account at executive council or even at our delegates conference, he will give excuse and the conference will just end on an unpleasant note,” the Vice-Secretary noted.