The Ministry of Education has criticized calls to prosecute Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum over the school placement fraud as absurd.
It follows reports that placement fraud has been traced to the Office of the Secretary of Education, with several officials allegedly taking 7,000 GHC to place students at Wesely Girls and Achimota High Schools.
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Speaking to Starr News, Ministry of Education spokesman Kwasi Kwarteng said the reports were false.
“If you look at the placement arrangement, 90% of vacanacies go to students through the automatic system. The remaining 10% is shared between the schools and the general public respectively. When it comes to that which goes to the general public it takes the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, TVET and other agencies to do the distribution. In that process of the distribution there is that possibility that because you have a human interface people may compromise the system.
“But at the end of the day, it is almost impossible or very difficult that any list presented to the Minister, he would be able to know that somebody took a or b amount of money. So if any person is to conclude that because there’s a suspision that some of the school placement was secured through monetary consideration and for that matter the Minister should be indicted, it is so absurd, so unreasonable and very untennable.”
Meanwhile, Gabby Otchere-Darko, a leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has sent former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo to the cleaners shop after her recent comments on the government domestic debt exchange programme.
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According to Gabby, Mrs Sophia Akuffo is bigger than what she did.
In a series of tweets, Mr Gabby Otchere-Darko tackled the former Chief Justice for her lack of understanding on the DDEP plan.
