The Ghana Police Service has officially arrested and detained Zakaria Abdulai, the interdicted headmaster of the Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), following mounting pressure and intense public outrage over widespread allegations of sexual misconduct.
Disclosing the development before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, Interior Minister Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak confirmed that the case had been escalated directly to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Accra for comprehensive forensic probing.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) initially stepped in to interdict the headmaster to ensure an unhindered administrative inquiry, while leadership bodies and gender advocacy networks have demanded absolute transparency and strict adherence to the rule of law. Meanwhile, legal representatives for the embattled headmaster maintain that their client denies any wrongdoing and is fully prepared to use all available judicial avenues to clear his name. The unfolding scandal has sparked intense national conversations regarding student safety protocols, institutional accountability, and the protection of vulnerable minors across second-cycle educational institutions nationwide.