President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, to engage the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its decision to ban some 14 dismissed final year senior high school students from taking the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
“Even though the acts of indiscipline undertaken by these students are intolerable, acts which have led to their subsequent dismissal from school, President Akufo-Addo is of the firm view that dismissal alone is enough punishment, and will serve as enough deterrent against future acts of indiscipline,” a statement from the presidency and signed by a director of communication Eugene Arhin said on Sunday, August 9, 2020.
The statement added: “The President believes that everyone deserves a second chance in life, and is, thus, hopeful that the students will be allowed by the GES to take their final examinations as scheduled. Indeed, all other punishment imposed by the relevant authorities should remain in place.”
The students engaged in disturbances that affected the smooth running of the examination in their various schools.
The affected students are Nicholas Cobbinah, Kardimeil Suapim and John Kwofie of the Sekondi College. Simon Ameyibor (Senior Prefect), Thomas Anokye and Miss Juliet Amoakowaa of the Tweneboah Koduah SHS. Emmanuel Ashiangmor, Peter Sissi, Ameka Nyamitse, Shadrack Dailtey and Alfred Attiso of the Battor SHS. Solomon Brako, Albert Agyekum and Robert Inkoom of the Juaben SHS.
Meanwhile, a leading children’s rights advocacy body, Child Rights International, Ghana (CRI), has appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reverse its decision to bar 14 students from writing the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The students engaged in disturbances that affected the smooth running of the examination in their various schools.
The affected students are Nicholas Cobbinah, Kardimeil Suapim, and John Kwofie of the Sekondi College. Simon Ameyibor (Senior Prefect), Thomas Anokye, and Miss Juliet Amoakowaa of the Tweneboah Koduah SHS. Emmanuel Ashiangmor, Peter Sissi, Ameka Nyamitse, Shadrack Dailtey, and Alfred Attiso of the Battor SHS. Solomon Brako, Albert Agyekum, and Robert Inkoom of the Juaben SHS.
In a statement, CRI commended the GES for the swift action, however, for the sake of the children’s future it appealed to the regulatory body to “reconsider the decision and allow the students to write their remaining examination in the school.”
