Ghana’s Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has alleged some “evil persons” bribed students to fake collapse at the Black Star Square while in a queue to get placement into Senior High Schools (SHS).
Dr Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, said some of the students had no business at the centre because they have had their placement issues resolved.
At least two teenagers were reported to have collapsed at the Independence Square Monday, September 16.2019 as frustrated prospective candidates and parents sought admission, according to Citinewsroom.
According to the Minister, some persons who wanted to mar the efforts of the Ministry to address the issues of placement of students into Senior High Schools bribed some people to feign exhaustion and collapse.
“We opened the center at the independence square to address the needs of Ghanaians who want to go to school, but some evil people have decided to pay GHc 20 and GHc 50 to people to go there and stage fainting and collapse, yesterday some of the collapses were fake. I’m even wondering why they brought little kids to the centre,” Dr. Prempeh said on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen show on Tuesday.
He added: “Some parents and students come to complain to us that they have not been placed but when you ask for their placement forms, they have none. They only show you their results slip and so I had to issue a directive that no one should come to the centre without a placement form.”
“The system works such that after you check your results, you can also check your placement. If you have not been placed automatically, the site will redirect you to the self-placement site where the schools that fall in your grade line are displayed for you to choose, you will also be given the choice of boarding or day, then you get to choose a program from the available programmes. After which you confirm and print a form, so there is no way you can have a placement form without having been placed in a school. Hence, you bring your placement form for us to resolve your issues.”
Source: Daily Mail GH
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