Students of Bonwire M/A Junior High School in the Ashanti Region have adopted a democratic method of selecting their school prefects.

Gone were the days that teachers selected the students that they assumed to be smart to hold various school prefectship positions.

Thus, by adopting an electoral process, all final-year students of the Bonwire M/A JHS are given an equal chance to contest for the position they aspire to wield.

A vetting committee is set up, and the candidates who picked up forms will be interviewed to ascertain their level of competence when they land the role they hope for.

Candidates who sailed through this stage further went on to campaign to garner their votes.

And for the first time in the school's history, a female was elected as their Head Prefect.

“The gender gap is closing and they are consciously accepting gender equality and its importance in their institution,” one Kobby Thumbs wrote on Facebook on Monday.

Kobby, whose post was sighted by Myjoyonline.com was impressed with the organisation of the election process.

He described it as “arguably the best election process in Ghanaian Junior High Schools.”

He was further awed when the students he interacted with informed him that they voted based on competence and not loyalty.

“After the election results, I asked the outgoing leaders and students how they felt about the whole process and their response was; ‘Sir, we wish you were around to witness the manifesto reading. The majority of us planned to vote for Party B since her elder brother is our mate but, an hour before the election, during the Manifesto reading, the manifesto of Party A changed our mindset and we all know who the leader should be. She was eloquent and had laudable and doable initiatives for the schools. The Prefect-elect would have lost totally if not for the manifesto reading,’” Kobby Thumbs wrote.

This, he believed was a little but huge step in fixing the country.

In his view, “Students deciding to put away the mindset of popularity vote and vote for the right leader who can and will put in the work to make their school great.”

According to him, there is still “hope” for Ghana despite the gradual wane of trust in the country's systems.