Former Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Sampson Ahi says government may intentionally fail students who have written this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), to ensure that its budget for running the Free Senior High School policy is not over spent.
The Minister of Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh outlining the plan for the much trumpeted flagship programme that will be rolled out in September 2017 at a media encounter last week, emphasized that only students who pass their BECE will enjoy the Free SHS policy.
He disclosed that the Free SHS programme which will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level programme will cost over Gh¢400 million per academic year, and can be enjoyed by only Ghanaians.
He emphasized that the Akufo Addo government is fully funding the entire programme which means “there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free.
But speaking to Agoo TV and Kasapa FM, Hon. Sampson Ahi who’s Member of Parliament for Bodi in the Western Region said he has strong conviction that the Akufo Addo led-government may deviously make the marking scheme very high in order to ensure that not more than the students budgeted for will pass the exams.
“The govenment has made in clear that it’s only sudents who pass the BECE who will get admission into the various SHS to enable them enjoy the Free SHS programme. If the results come and a student fails, he/she doesn’t get to enjoy the programme, so government may deliberately fail the students so that if 300 students have been budgeted for, only 300 will pass. If 300 is budgeted and 450 pass the exams, government will not have funds to cater for the additional 150 who pass. The NPP government must be cautioned not to do any such devious act which will negatively impact on the education of our young students who are our future leaders.”
“The NPP in opposition told us that when the come to power, the BECE will not be the basis for a Junior High School student to get admission into the Senior High School, so why have they made a u-turn and are now telling us that when a student doesn’t pass the BECE he/she can’t enjoy Free SHS education.
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8 COMMENTS

  1. What Mr. Ahi is saying is useless presumption. In the first place can any normal person, and in this case the president of a nation decide to truncate the educational future of innocent school children because of political whims? Secondly is President Akufo Addo a member of the examining board of WAEC to raise the pass mark?
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  3. Two points: What is this ridiculous and insane habit by most Ghanaian Radio Stations, in fact, practically all of them it seems have become practitioners of such nonsense and noisy commercial jingles interruptions which really distorts the very message they’re trying to provide or convey to the listening public. They are a complete nuisance!!!
    My second point: What in heavens will, or could possibly make any credible government deliberately fail her own national students in order to prevent them from benefiting a higher level education and/or training?
    How could an “MP” (Member of Parliament), even conceive of such an infantile thought !!?? Can Ghanaian/African politics degenerate to such level of disgrace and votes for such imbeciles to represent high national positions?
    We are not boy!! Please.

  5. I pity those that voted for him to represent them in parliament. If a whole MP can spit this nonsense in public then our political dispensation is doom. Such an imbecile should not be allowed to use the media for no reason. Tell him to brush his teeth well and use mouth wash too.

  6. What was Hon Samson Ahi thinking.???? That the government will deliberately fail the JHS students????? Oh my God. And he’s an MP????? Ghanaian voters let’s rethink our line of voting!!!

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