The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has issued a stern caution that lecturers throughout Ghana might embark on a national sit-down strike if government fail to arrest, prosecute, and compensate the ones concerned within the contemporary attack of a instructor at Kade Senior High Technical School inside of 14 operating days.

The Eastern Regional Chairman of NAGRAT, Awoonor–Yevu Godwin, delivered the ultimatum all over a press convention on the Regional Secretariat on Tuesday, December 10, 2025. He condemned the “barbaric and shameful act” captured in a viral video appearing scholars attacking the trainer on his approach house.

“If prompt action is not taken by the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Education Service to prosecute the culprits and give fair compensation to the victim involved within fourteen working days, teachers across the country may be forced to embark on a nationwide sit-down strike,” Godwin said.

He emphasized that this sort of strike would “inevitably disrupt the 2026 academic calendar,” noting that the persistence of lecturers has reached its prohibit.

The union chief described the Kade incident as a part of a nerve-racking nationwide development of violence towards educators.

He cited a number of contemporary circumstances, together with a scholar stabbing a instructor at Takoradi Technical Institute in September 2025, every other scholar stabbing a instructor at Christian Methodist SHS all over the 2025 WASSCE, and a 2024 assault the place a instructor within the Ashanti Region was once stabbed within the eye.

NAGRAT is asking at the Inspector-General of Police to make sure the swift arrest and prosecution of all scholars recognized within the viral video.

The affiliation additionally calls for enhanced protection protocols in colleges and the speedy establishment of a possibility allowance for all lecturers, mentioning the expanding risks of the occupation.

The Ghana Education Service and NAGRAT’s National Secretariat have each shaped unbiased committees to analyze the Kade attack.

While commending the GES Director-General for the swift investigative motion, NAGRAT insists that concrete judicial and compensatory steps will have to apply.

The union asserts that the protection and dignity of lecturers are non-negotiable and a basic legal responsibility of the state. It has referred to as on conventional government, the Ministry of Education, and safety businesses to collaborate urgently to give protection to educators.

“Teachers are the backbone of our nation’s development,” Godwin mentioned. “It is therefore unacceptable and intolerable that they continue to work under threats, violence, and fear.”

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