The Effiduase police have arrested a 19-year-old pupil teacher, for using a fake results slip to seek employment. Richard Duffour, a native of Kumawu Abotanso, who has been teaching at the local Methodist Primary School at Abenaso, near Kumawu, since March, was arrested when he submitted a forged results slip to the District Education Directorate, in a bid to collect his seven months (March-September) accumulated salary. Chief Inspector Asiamah told The Chronicle, that on September 18, this year, Teacher Duffour applied for a letter of introduction from the Ghana Education Service Directorate at Effiduase, to enable him withdraw his accumulated salary at the Kumawuman Rural Bank. The police officer indicated that the teacher was requested to submit an original results slip, in order to process his application, but on receiving the results slip, the District Director of Education, Mr. Kofi Safo Kantaka, detected that the serial number 0034259 on the slip, fell outside the serial numbers for the Sekyere East District. Further enquiries at the Tweneboa Kodua Senior High School, where the suspect claimed he obtained his secondary education in science, revealed that the forged results slip with index number 651802238, belonged to one Lydia Ofori Boadu, who offered Business in 2004. The school index number on the forged results slip was 651807, instead of 651802, which corresponded with Lydia’s index number 651802238, meaning Lydia was indeed a student of Tweneboa Kodua SHS, and that Duffour was not. Chief Inspector Asiamah also pointed to another anomaly which gave Duffour away, as the omission of the letter ‘a’ in Tweneboa, as it appeared in the school’s rubber stamp, which read “Twenebo” Kodua Senior School. Meanwhile, investigations by the paper have revealed that Master Duffour, a native of Kumawu Abotanso, completed his secondary education in 2006, at the Zamse Secondary Technical School at Bolgatanga, in the Upper East Region. Investigations into the conduct of Duffour’s behaviour, in order to apprehend all those involved in such criminal acts, are on going, Inspector Asiamah said. Source: The Chronicle