Ghana: Is This Abuse Or Correction?

editorial

On Sunday, June 1st, 2008, TV3 carried a news item about an incident in which two men believed to be Land guards were whipping a male student of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute in Accra. According to the report, the student was alleged to have peeped at female students in the girls' dormitory. In another news report on the same television station on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2008, the student denied the accusation against him. Unfortunately the school authorities would not comment on the issue when the television station contacted them.

The Proprietor of the school, Mr. Enoch Lamptey Mills was reported to have rained insults on the TV crew and said he did not care how far they will go with the story. This is an inappropriate act by the Proprietor of a school that has gained so much popularity, especially through their educative campaigns that is carried on our television screens.

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