Eight high school students expelled on Thursday for insulting Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo in a viral video have apologized and asked to be reinstated.
“I am here with my colleagues on our knees to beg the president, the headmaster, the education office, and our fellow Ghanaians. We sincerely apologize for our viral video. We did not intend for it to go viral; it was a childish game; we apologize and beg the President to call us back,” one of the students said in a video.
The Ghana Education Service suspended the former students of Chiana Senior High School in the Upper East region before expelling them on Thursday (GES).
GES described the students’ actions as “very undesirable, and contrary to the acceptable standards of the conduct generally required of any student in Ghana’s educational system”, according to local reports.
According to My JoyOnline, an opposition MP called the decision harsh and retrogressive and asked the president to intervene.
