The group is also asking for appropriate sanctions to be applied after the investigation.

The Reverend Father, identified as Balthazar Obeng Larbi, was captured locking lips with some female students of St Monica’s College of Education.

The clip, which is spreading like wildfire on social media, sees three students lined up and taking turns to exchange passionate kisses with the man of God behind a pulpit in the presence of a seemingly large congregation.

The act, which is termed as a “holy kiss” among persons familiar with it, seeks to officially welcome new converts of the school to the body of Christ Jesus.

Wearing a green and white liturgical robe, the Reverend Father draws each of the students towards himself and plants his lips on theirs.

But to the education think tank, the act is in blatant disregard for the covid-19 safety protocols, especially with the priest as someone to ensure adherence.

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They are also among other things demanding a pronouncement on whether or not the practice of kissing students in public is an acceptable conduct in a tertiary institution.

A statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, said the attention of the Office of the President had been drawn to the publication in the June 2019 edition of the AfricaWatch magazine.

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 “The contents of the publication impugn criminal conduct on the part of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Member of Parliament, in government’s attempts to purchase properties for its newly opened Embassy in Oslo, the capital of Norway,” the statement read.

The statement further added that “the allegations in the publication are baseless, libelous, and scurrilous, and contain nothing but manufactured lies. We are aware of this magazine’s notoriously established agenda of defaming the President through the deliberate publication of such false stories about him. The agenda will fail, as it has failed before.”

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“The publishers, editors and distributors of the publication will be dealt with in the appropriate forum,” the Presidency warned.

Below is the full statement: