The Ghana Statistical Service has justified excluding school head teachers and circuit supervisors from trainee programmes for census officials. The service said it would no longer use the head teachers and circuit supervisors as census officers as the school heads would be expected to at post to supervise their pupils as school resumes in the next few days. Public Relations Officer of the GSS, Michael Adu-Gyamfi, told Joy News on Monday the decision follows a directive from the Ghana Education. “We had directives from the Ghana Education Service because school reopens at the time when we are going to have the census, they want all the head masters and circuit supervisors we are not going to have access to these pupils when we start the census,” Mr Adu-Gyamfi said. Mr Adu-Gyamfi’s comment follows agitations by head teachers of the Odogonor Senior High School in Accra who believe there is a deliberate attempt to frustrate their inclusion in the programme. A census official receive GH¢10 per day but some of the trainees complain they should be entitled to GH¢10 per day. The GSS PRO told Joy FM’s Benard Saibu the sidelining of head teachers and other persons is countrywide and that agitations by head teachers at Odogonor are rather uncalled for. On reports that trainees at the school had rejected food served them citing palatability, Mr Adu-Gyamfi said the Statistical Service would soon launch an investigation. A trainee who spoke to host of Home Affairs, Gyifa Bampoe, said food served them is as poor as what will be served “prisoners.” “There is actually commotion everywhere. We are just coming to work for nothing,” one trainee said. Story by Fiifi Koomson/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana