Obuasi SHTS Headmaster Scandal: Two Kinds of Justice in Ghana
By Anonymous · 23 October 2026 · Politics
I write to report that while the nation looks on in horror and indignation, a pathetic circus continues to play out across our public institutions over Mr. Zakaria Abdulai, the suspended headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School.
Osagyefo, you would weep for the daughters of this soil if you saw how the Ghana Education Service and the NDC administration have handled a man accused of rape, grooming, and sexual abuse by nineteen young female students. Instead of bringing the full weight of the law to bear, our state machinery has treated the accused with the padded, red-carpet courtesy usually reserved for visiting royalty.
And we need not wonder why. Mr. Abdulai is no ordinary headmaster. He was the NDC’s Juaben Constituency Secretary, and even as these allegations swirled, he was campaigning to become the party’s constituency chairman. Only when the public outcry grew too loud to ignore did the party ask him to step aside, and only then did he resign his position and withdraw from the race. Osagyefo, a man facing nineteen allegations of abuse had to be pushed out of a party race. He did not step back on his own.
The lesson for every Ghanaian watching is plain: in this Republic, justice now wears party colours. If you carry an NDC card, you are handled with patience, courtesy, and endless benefit of the doubt. If you do not, you had better pray you never utter a careless word about those in power.
How is this man still walking freely in Obuasi, enjoying his liberty and granting media interviews, while nineteen young girls are left to nurse their trauma? By his own account on radio, he was granted self-recognisance bail because he is a headmaster. In a country where ordinary citizens are hauled off at dawn by state security for sharp words against the President and his wife, a party official accused of systematic sexual abuse is released on his own word because of his title, and left free in the very town where his accusers live.
The farce deepens when you examine how the authorities responded. The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, admitted on video that when these allegations first reached him, his solution was to advise that female students stop visiting the headmaster’s bungalow and to warn the headmaster not to let girls in. Imagine that, Osagyefo! Allegations of sexual abuse against children, met with advice on who may visit a bungalow, as though the problem were the girls’ movements and not the man’s alleged conduct.
And what has Mr. Abdulai done with his freedom? He has taken to the airwaves to attack his accusers, claiming one of the girls had already given birth, as if that were a defense. Since when does a student’s past give anyone license to abuse her? How can a nation claim to protect its daughters when an accused man is allowed to stand on public platforms and tear down the character of the very children he was paid to protect? It is no surprise, then, that a lawyer for the girls now reports that some of them are being intimidated into withdrawing their complaints.
To top it all off, the Vice President, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, stepped before the cameras only after public outcry reached fever pitch, and delivered a sterile statement about letting the law take its course without political interference. Where is the moral fury of a female Vice President and a lifelong educator? Why come before the nation only to defend procedure while the accused strolls freely around Obuasi?
Osagyefo, we must ask the hard questions. Is this how this Republic intends to treat its young girls? When a headmaster stands accused of turning his official bungalow into a place of abuse, and the GES, local government, and state security respond with suspensions, dockets, and polite advice, what message are we sending to every schoolgirl in Ghana?
It appears that in our land, there are two kinds of justice. Insulting the political elite earns you a dawn raid, while being an NDC man accused of abusing nineteen students earns you self-recognisance bail, a seat in a chairmanship race, and a microphone to insult your accusers.
Do they serve jollof at Obuasi SecTech ?
Ato_KD