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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Youth Wing has launched a scathing criticism at Former President John Mahama for saying that the extraordinary pass rate in the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) was as a result of examination malpractice facilitated through collusion between teachers and invigilators which enable candidates sitting the examination to cheat massively.
The Youth Wing minced no words in castigating the former President for his claims, stressing that they are unsubstantiated and cautioning him to not allow his desperation to lead the country again to get him to discredit the whole school system of the country for votes.
In a statement signed by the NPP National Deputy Youth Organizer, Sandra Sarkodee-Adoo, the NPP also accused John Mahama of seeking to belittle the intelligence of the Ghanaian youth with his comments.
“In his [John Mahama] recent visit to Asafo in the Agona East Constituency of the Central Region, he openly rubbished the success of Senior High School students who have passed their WASSCE with excellence. He, John Dramani Mahama argued that the students did not merit the successes chalked in the WASSCE and that their intelligence was not as the exam results portrayed. Such comments can only come from a person who does not believe in nurturing the future of our nation. A former president and statesman for that matter should not be demeaning in his utterances as John Mahama has recently been,” the statement said.
The party then went on to challenge John Mahama to back his claim with concrete evidence of cheating in any school where the WASSCE was taken or quit trying to impugn the integrity of stakeholders in education and the Government that has successfully implemented the free senior high school (SHS) policy.
“Concerning his claim that in most schools across Ghana, Teachers connived with the students to cheat in the WASSCE, I dare the former President to mention only one school where such an unfortunate event happened.
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