Stop Transferring Sexual Abuse Offenders, Revoke Their Licences — Duncan Amoah Urges GES
The Executive Director of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers, Duncan Amoah, has urged the Ghana Education Service to stop transferring teachers found culpable of sexual abuse and serious misconduct. He called for their teaching licences to be revoked and their names placed on a national blacklist. Mr Amoah made the call on The Big Issue on Saturday, October 24, 2026. He argued that transferring offenders from one school to another fails to address the misconduct and could expose more students to abuse. Furthermore, he stressed that teachers responsible for serious offences must be removed from the education system entirely rather than reassigned to other schools.
Transfers Enable Repeat Offending — Amoah
Mr Amoah said the practice of transferring teachers with adverse findings against them was unacceptable and must stop immediately. He explained that moving an offender to another school simply created new opportunities for further abuse. Moreover, he said the Ghana Education Service had a duty to protect all students in every institution, not just those in the school where the original offence occurred.
“One of the problems being identified is that the person does the wrong thing in school A, adverse findings are made, and instead of removing the person completely, the next remedy is that the person ought to be transferred,” he said. Therefore, he called for the practice to cease immediately, adding that “an offender is an offender.”
Amoah Calls for Centralised Blacklist Covering Public and Private Schools
Mr Amoah further called for a centralised blacklist accessible to both public and private schools across the country. He said this would prevent teachers sanctioned for serious misconduct from securing employment at other institutions after losing their positions in the public school system. In addition, he called for the revocation of teaching licences as a firm disciplinary measure for offenders.
“Revoke them and blacklist them so that not even a private school is allowed to engage,” he said. As a result, he argued, the education system would have a stronger deterrent against sexual abuse and other serious misconduct by teachers. However, he noted that where criminal prosecution and imprisonment were possible, those remedies should also be pursued in full.