The Ministry of Education has described as absurd calls for the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum to be indicted over the school placement scandal.
It follows reports that placement fraud has been traced to the office of the Minister of Education as some officials allegedly took GHC7,000 to place students as Wesely Girls and Achimota Senior High School.
Speaking to Starr News, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng said such reports are untrue.
“If you look at the placement arrangement, 90% of vacanacies go to students through the automatic system. The remaining 10% is shared between the schools and the general public respectively. When it comes to that which goes to the general public it takes the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, TVET and other agencies to do the distribution. In that process of the distribution there is that possibility that because you have a human interface people may compromise the system.
“But at the end of the day, it is almost impossible or very difficult that any list presented to the Minister, he would be able to know that somebody took a or b amount of money. So if any person is to conclude that because there’s a suspision that some of the school placement was secured through monetary consideration and for that matter the Minister should be indicted, it is so absurd, so unreasonable and very untennable.”