- A Ghanaian male teacher has gone viral after requesting a special government allowance for male teachers, claiming they deserve payment for maintaining self-control around female students.
- In the video, he said Senior High School girls are becoming more attractive, which requires discipline from male teachers.
- His comments sparked outrage and amusement online
Ghanaians have taken to social media to react after a video of a male teacher making a controversial request surfaced online.
In the viral clip, the teacher appealed to the government to create a special allowance for male teachers, claiming they deserve to be paid for maintaining self-control around their female students.
According to him, Senior High School girls are becoming “increasingly attractive,” and it takes a lot of discipline for male teachers to stay professional.
In his words
‘’The Minister of Education, I stand for my colleagues, in fact we deserve self-control allowance. Teachers, we deserve self-control allowance because looking at these young girls nowadays, teachers are suffering. Ghana teachers, we are suffering, We deserve self-control allowance because it is not easy.
It is not easy for teachers to control himself for three good years, teaching these kids because nowadays the kind of food they are eating, the kind of body hugs they are putting on, it makes them look attractive but they are very young and it is not easy for us to control ourselves.” he said
His comments has elicited reactions from many Ghanaians. While some do not see anything wrong in what he said, others demand for his arrest and prosecution.
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