A private legal practitioner and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo has blamed the government for the violent behaviour of some final year Senior High School Students sitting for the ongoing West African Senior School Certification Examination (WASSCE).
According to the Lawyer, the government’s poor implementation of their flagship Free SHS policy was the cause of the disgraceful acts of agitations and vandalism that has been recorded in various schools in the past days.
Speaking on Citi’s “The Big Issue” on Saturday, August 8, Mr. Samoa Addo also stated that the free supply of past questions to the candidates gave the students a bad impression of an “easy-to-pass” exams.
“The attempt to use past questions as a lifeline to rescue a policy that is good in theory but has been poorly implemented, this is the result… We condemn the insult and all that, but we should look at the underlying problem and that problem has to do with the poor implementation of the free SHS policy…These kids are being used as guinea pigs, unfortunately, but we are praying that they muster the courage to be able to write these exams. They should not rely on any past questions,” Nii Kpakpo said.
Though the NDC member welcomed the sanctions meted out to the by the GES, he however added that the government must take responsibility for the situation.
He said, “Because of the lack of broad consultation, its [Free SHS] implementation has been disastrous and what it has produced is half-baked students who then are given a lifeline of past questions with the belief that these questions are our messiah because we have not adequately completed our syllabus. We lack the necessary preparation and so when we are given these past questions, this is like the lifeline. Let’s just study these past questions and by some magic, we will pass.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
