Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has raised questions about the circumstances in which the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School allegedly gave a student Ghc100 on the day she accused him of raping her.
Manasseh said the committee that examined the allegations recorded that the headmaster admitted meeting the girl on July 25, the date she said the alleged rape occurred.
According to the journalist, the student presented a pair of shorts she claimed was stained with the headmaster’s semen, as well as Ghc100 she said he gave her after the alleged incident.
“The evidence the girl submitted as encounter with the headmaster was her shorts, which she said was stained with the headmaster’s semen, and a hundred Ghana cedis, which she said the headmaster gave her after the alleged rape,” Manasseh said on JoyNews’ Newsfile on October 24, 2026.
He explained that the headmaster admitted giving the girl the money but offered a different account of why he did so.
The headmaster reportedly told the committee that the student had come to discuss financial difficulties and that he gave her the money to help her resolve them.
Manasseh also questioned how the girl came to meet the headmaster at his residence that day.
He said the student had gone to attend to her clothes on the lawn when the headmaster called her over to his house, a detail he said the headmaster also admitted to the committee.
“The headmaster actually admitted to that GS committee that indeed the girl came to dry her things, and when he came to remove them, he called the girl,” Manasseh recounted.
He questioned why the headmaster would call the student into his house if the purpose was simply to discuss financial problems.
“So the question is, if somebody actually wanted to discuss a financial issue with you, maybe naturally they could have walked to your house and then they discussed it. Not you seeing them around, calling them in,” he said.
Manasseh’s revelation shed light on the conflicting explanations surrounding the GH¢100 and the circumstances of the meeting. The headmaster’s reported admission that he gave the student the money does not, on its own, establish the allegation of rape, which remains an allegation.
