OWASS, ex-headmaster settle age fracas 

A Kumasi High Court presided over by Justice Charles Adjei Wilson has ordered the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education and the Attorney General’s Department to pay all salary arrears including the retirement benefits of the immediate past headmaster of Opoku Ware Senior High School, Fidelis Mathew Oppong-Mensah following the determination of his true retirement age.

Mr Oppong-Mensah’s retirement age has been in contention for over a year after he filed an affidavit to correct his age. Per the affidavits, he was supposed to have retired in March this year, but the school authorities stuck to his earlier documents and forcefully retired him last year March without his benefits.

The former headmaster contested the matter at the law courts following which an amicable out of court settlement was reached.

The court last Wednesday, adopted the terms of settlement as agreed and filed by the parties and considered them binding on the parties forthwith.

Per the terms of settlement, the plaintiff (Oppong-Mensah) should be paid his salaries in arrears from September, 2015, when his name went off the payroll of the first defendant (GES) to March, 2016. 

That GES will take all the necessary steps to facilitate the receipt of the benefits due to the former headmaster under the settlement terms.

Signatories to the terms of settlement reached included the plaintiff (former headmaster) himself, the Ashanti regional Director of Education, Madam Mary Owusu-Achiaw for and on behalf of GES and the Ministry of Education.