Per the document available bares that President Akufo Addo has finally spoken on the dismissal of the 14 WASSCE candidates.
It is established that the President wants the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service to reconsider their punitive measures meted out to the involved students.
Meanwhile, BROADCASTGHANA has gathered that the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service will meet today at the round table to decide what should be done to the students, due to the president’s appeal.
President Akufo addo said: “In a statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Office of the President, Mr Eugene Arhin, said the President believed that dismissal alone was enough punishment.
“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,” the statement said.
It added that the President was of the view that everyone deserved a second chance in life, and was thus, hopeful that the students would be allowed by the GES to take their final examination as scheduled.
“Indeed, all other punishments imposed by the relevant authorities should remain in place,” the statement noted.
GES
Last Friday, the GES dismissed 14 senior high school (SHS) students from their respective schools and also barred them from writing their remaining papers over various acts of vandalism and acts of indiscipline at their respective examination centres.
After writing the Integrated Science paper, which they said was very difficult, some of the students vandalised school property, others were also seen in foul-mouthed tirade directed at high-profile personalities including President Akufo-Addo. Videos of their abuse have since gone viral on social media.
The students were from different schools.
Affected students
Five of the students are from Battor SHS; three students each from Sekondi College and Juaben SHS were also dismissed.
The School Prefect and two other students of Tweneboa Kodua SHS were also asked to pack out of the school compound.
The GES also directed the dismissed students to leave their respective compounds with immediate effect and all students in schools where properties were destroyed surcharged.
Their results are to be withheld until the students make full payment of the properties damaged.
Students in the above schools destroyed furniture, smashed bowls containing evening meals in the dining hall, attacked invigilators, journalists, demonstrated and issued threats to school authorities for being firm on invigilation during the exam.
Three teachers from Tweneboa Kodua SHS, Kade SHTS and Sekondi College have also been interdicted and barred from invigilating the WASSCE, pending investigations.”
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