The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says persons found culpable in the latest exposé on the SHS school placement will be dealt with.
Speaking in reaction to the documentary aired on Monday, Mr Adutwum promised to work with the relevant security agencies to ensure the illegality does not happen under his watch.
“If this is going on, there is a cartel. It has to be stopped and I will work with security agencies to make sure this does not happen under me as the Minister for Education.
“Free SHS is not for sale, so if anybody thinks they can manipulate the system and do something untoward, it has to be stopped,” he said.
His comment comes against the backdrop of The Fourth Estate documentary that revealed the CSSPS for students to Senior High Schools has been corrupted, in that it is no longer based on merit but requires the payment of enormous sums of money to warrant admission into some schools.
The documentary revealed that 10% of slots are usually reserved for protocol placements.
Investigations further revealed that some parents paid up to 20,000 cedis to get their children enrolled in top-tier senior high schools.
In some cases, people pay as much as 10,000 cedis to maintain a slot, according to the investigative documentary.
Reacting to this development, Dr Adutwum noted that the Ministry is reviewing the documentary and would respond appropriately.
But the immediate past Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwah says he and the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum must take full responsibility for the fraudulent acts exposed in the Computerised Selection School Placement System (CSSPS).
Reacting to the “School Placement for Sale” documentary, Prof. Amankwah explained that he wrote to the Criminal Investigations Department of Ghana Police while he was in office to deal with corruption issues in the CSSPS.
This, he said was part of measures to accept his responsibility as the Head of GES to ensure that corruption-related matters with CSSPS are dealt with.
“If there is fraud in the matter then myself as Director General and the Minister should take responsibility.
“I fully accept that and I fully agree but that is also the reason why I knew that I am part of it, I took measures to ensure that the issues relating to corruption and payment of monies and things like that have been dealt with and I wrote to the CID and the PMI,” he stated.
Meanwhile, eight persons have been arrested by the Police for their involvement in the placement exposé.
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