The Veteran Nollywood Actor, Olu Jacob - Something will Kill a Man but me, I would like it to be Warm, to be Wet and Slippery. I want the Woman under me Squirming. I want her Moaning and Groaning

Another sexual scandal involving the headmaster of Dzodze Penyi Senior High School in Ketu North Municipality and some of the student girls is making the rounds. Some male teachers appear to find it extremely difficult to understand the game in which these students, particularly the females, are cared for in the same way that Fulani herders care for their cattle and forbid feasting on any of their mouthwatering fatty flesh. The metaphor used highlights the power imbalance in such situations and must not be misconstrued to be a denigration of any tribe or, moreover, give latitude and empathy to the herdsmen in this cognitive prowess. Educators have a responsibility to maintain professional boundaries and ensure students' safety.

The situation at Dzodze Penyi Senior High School is really serious. Sexual misconduct claims against educators are serious and should be thoroughly investigated. Students' safety and well-being are vital, and schools must create a safe environment. Largely, complainants and those who firmly advocate for abusers are brought to prison without the tiniest of mercy for this anti-social behaviour, have ever been victims directly or indirectly and have pledged mother earth and heaven to deliver justice to student girls in our schools with promising futures who fall victim. They are the most aware of the terrible implications of the crime, and parents are warned to be circumspect when they entrust their daughters in the hands of some male educators.

Much as we thought the myriads of campaigns and other interventions against the menace were yielding the much-needed results for the education sector, particularly teachers' weekly Professional Learning Community (PLC) sessions since the implementation of the new curriculum, the scandals have continued to escalate exponentially. We are greeted this morning by yet another sex scandal from our SH/TS, and this transgression perplexes me since it embodies the essence of all the interventions implemented at the taxpayer's expense. I am intrigued and left with no choice but to question the immediate impact of the interventions through the PLS sessions, with sexual harassment as the headline issue in this standard-based curriculum implementation.

The time that we almost dusted off the earlier memories of such nefarious incidents from our minds with the viral scandals of the Okadjakrom Senior High Technical School (SHTS) teacher in the Oti Region and the KNUST Senior High School (SHS) case, the Volta Region's Dzodze Penyi SHS in Ketu North Municipality says no to any campaign of any sort, and it was no other person but the headmaster of the school. I'm curious about the headmaster's approach to having sexual relations with the female students. Whether it was coerced, invited, or a freebie, compromising his primary role as headmaster at the school and his lifelong devotion to the nation and ending up as a public ridicule is a wilful failure on his part.

What about the family he left behind, which includes nice children who rely on their father for their future and livelihood? I'm not sure if this is an appeal or something different, but as much as any institutional body is obligated to examine, this individual will need total discretion and a deserved human face for the children and their future in order to lighten or measure the ripples of their father’s punishment for genetic ties. Two wrongs do not make a right, and this does not call for the headmaster in question to be exonerated. What must be done must be done, but it is my prayer that we as a society reflect to recognise that what the right brain of anyone is suffering from is wrong, and what the left brain is tied to is right.

Well, the Ghana Education Service has swiftly taken the needed action as administrative protocol by asking the headmaster to hand over official duties to the director of education, Ketu North municipality, beginning December 7, 2025, and to completely stay aside until investigations are over. It is the outcome of the pending investigation that will either indict him or otherwise for the alleged sexual misconduct with his female lads of the very school he ceases to be the headmaster of for now.

The local maxim that says the notorious and hardheaded housefly will be buried along with the corpse must be a reflective point, particularly for the male teachers in our pre-tertiary schools. A lady’s ‘no’ is ‘no’ and nothing else. Do not even be moved less to thing of having sexual relations with these student girls. The veteran Nollywood actor, Olu Jacob, in one of his iconic movies, saying, “Something will kill a man, but me, I would like it to be warm, to be wet and slippery. I want the woman under me squirming. I want her moaning and groaning” is a common-sense lexicon. If you treasure the beauty of the aforementioned famous actor's phrasal arrangements and wish to experience them in real life, life is full of choices.