The Past Students’ Association of Mpraeso Secondary School in the Eastern Region has called on the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to release a white paper on the report of the committee established to investigate lapses at the school last year. Additionally, the association has asked the GES to confirm the acting headmaster as the substantive head. But the GES says, the association has no business in the appointment of a headmaster for the school and as such can’t impose any particular person on the authorities. The acting GES Director-General, Michael Nsowah said "The association does not run a school and as such, they cannot direct GES what to do when it comes to matters concerning the appointment of a headmaster." He said the GES has started the implementation of some aspects of the recommendations of the committee that investigated the lapses in the school and this necessitated the transfer of the incumbent headmaster. Mr Nsowah said at the moment, GES has a pool of qualified officers who have gone through the interview process and were found out to be capable of heading a school so there was need to have advertised for the position. The president of the association, Sam Akurang Wiafe in a letter dated January 10, 2007 and headed "Please don’t jump the gun, GES," said: "Further to our letter of 29th December, 2006, we wish to register our surprise and disgust at the transfer of G. R. Agyare, the headmaster of Kwahu Ridge Secondary School, Obo-Kwahu to Mpraeso School as the new headmaster." Mr Wiafe said, "Vacancies are normally advertised and heads of second cycle institutions appointed through selection interviews. Vacancies in certain schools are being advertised. Why has this not been done in the case of Mpraeso Secondary School?" He said the acting headmaster has been running the school efficiently and effectively to the extent that discipline and academic standards are improving appreciably, staff moral being restored and staff bungalows which have been in state of disrepair for years, being rehabilitated. "We wish to end by asking the GES to do the right thing by allowing the acting headmaster to continue with his good works until government’s white paper is released on the investigative committee’s report. We wish also to ask the GES to go through the processes of selection and appointment of a new headmaster as the GES itself has established," the letter said. A committee was set up last year to investigate financial impropriety and administrative ineptitude on the part of the former headmaster, Patrick Owusu-Manu. Source: The Ghanaian Times