The Ghana Education Service (GES) has stated that it will not continue to engage the two teachers implicated in recent sexual misconduct cases if they are found guilty.

Head of Public Relations at GES, Daniel Fenyi, made this clear during an interview on The Pulse on JoyNews, in the wake of two separate incidents involving teachers — one at Okadjakrom Senior High Technical School in the Oti Region and another at KNUST Senior High School in the Ashanti Region.

According to him, "When you are found culpable in such situation, the first thing is that GES cannot work with you because for somebody who doesn't have moral standard, for somebody who is supposed to be a parent, a mentor to the young learners, if you cannot discharge your duty in that professional manner then we cannot obviously work with you and so the first reaction is that, you will loose your job."

Mr Fenyi added that, the situation becomes worse if the students found in the act are minors, "When investigations reveal that the students involved or the victim involved is a minor, then that is where the matter even becomes more complicated because when it comes to minors, whether they give you consent or they didn't give you, once they are minors, the law didn't allow that."

The teacher at the centre of the Oti Region incident, Mr Mfo Richard Tibetor, has already been interdicted pending the outcome of investigations. Meanwhile, efforts are ongoing to reach the student involved, who has completed school and left the premises.

In the case of KNUST SHS, the Headteacher has since been suspended by GES.