{"id":18038,"date":"2026-10-21T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=18038"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:52:11","slug":"miracles-aboagye-criticises-veep-over-silence-on-alleged-sexual-abuse-at-obuasi-shts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=18038","title":{"rendered":"Miracles Aboagye criticises Veep over silence on alleged sexual abuse at Obuasi SHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) Director of Communications, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has criticised Vice-President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang for not publicly commenting on allegations of sexual misconduct involving the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), Zakaria Abdulai.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Aboagye said the Vice-President\u2019s silence was disappointing, particularly given the expectations of women and girls that she would speak out on matters concerning their safety, rights and welfare.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2500680891621702\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfill-optimized\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_1_host\">\n<div class=\"google-aiuf\" data-google-ad-efd=\"true\">\n<div class=\"goog-rentries\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div id=\"ado-article-leaderboard_mid\" data-google-query-id=\"CLST8cKFy5cDFXb7DQkdRck1_w\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1002554\/Adomonline\/ado-article-leaderboard_mid_0__container__\">Speaking on Accra-based Channel One TV, he argued that as Ghana\u2019s first female Vice-President, Professor Opoku-Agyemang was expected to take a more visible stance on issues relating to the protection of children, especially girls.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said her position in government offered her a unique platform to advocate for female students and express concern over allegations of abuse involving minors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople expect to hear the Vice-President\u2019s voice, whether you like it or not. They expect that the female Vice-President should stand up for girls, should stand up for the female child. And the silence is very loud,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come in the wake of the suspension and interdiction of Mr Abdulai over allegations of gross sexual misconduct and abuse involving multiple female students at the school.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, a 20-year-old Form Two student of Obuasi SHTS, accompanied by her father, lodged a complaint with the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Obuasi on August 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations have drawn attention to concerns about the protection of students and the need for appropriate investigations into reported cases of sexual misconduct in educational institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) Director of Communications, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has criticised Vice-President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang for not publicly commenting on allegations of sexual misconduct involving the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), Zakaria Abdulai. Mr Aboagye said the Vice-President\u2019s silence was disappointing, particularly given the expectations of women and girls that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":18039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18040,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038\/revisions\/18040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}