WASSCE: Allow dismissed candidates to write remaining papers – Nana Addo tells Napo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has asked the Minister for Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, to engage the Ghana Education Service (GES) to call off its decision to ban some fourteen (14)  final year senior high school students from taking the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

This comes after the GES dismissed and barred some 14 students from writing their remaining papers over their involvement in acts of indiscipline and vandalism during the WASSCE.

A statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin said the President is “of the firm view that dismissal alone is enough punishment, and will serve as enough deterrent against future acts of indiscipline”.

“Even though the acts of indiscipline undertaken by these students are intolerable, acts which have led to their subsequent dismissal from school, President Akufo Addo is of the firm view that dismissal alone is enough punishment, and will serve as enough deterrent against future acts of indiscipline,” part of the statement reads.

The President, however, pointed out that “other punishment imposed by the relevant authorities should remain in place.”

Read the full statement below: