Prof. Stephen Adei, the former Director General and Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, minced no words when he told Samuel Attah-Mensah, the Citi tv host for FootPrint program that majority of Ghanaian students having outstanding BECE grades in English, Mathematics and Science cannot even read and/or write.

The former rector told Citi TV’s Samuel Attah-Mensah that he and his wife began a free SHS school at his village  Adansi Asokwa district, before the Akufo Addo’s corruption-ridden free SHS was conceived and realized.

The school, GCIHS, is from basic to SHS on the Afienya – Dodowa Road, the SHS at the same location. The SHS is called Hweremoase Community Campus.

Although it was an eye opener to hear this revelation from no mean person than the man who was the chairperson of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) under the Nana Akufo-Addo government, the host surprisingly would not probe further on such sensitive and important national issue.

Prof. Adei’s revelation comes on the heels of several WASSCE and BECE leakages and arrests of WASSCE and BECE invigilators and collaborators.

This sad revelation came from the man who has also served as the board chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority having been sworn in by the Finance Minister of Ghana; Ken Ofori-Atta

BECE is a sham. Many students pay their way out.

According to Prof. Stephen Adei, BECE candidates pay around 60 cedis to obtain assistance from their teachers, headmasters, police and invigilators. He added that the situation was very worrisome because it renders most students illiterate in the end although they have so-called excellent grades sought after by the GES. 

The claims of Prof. Stephen Adei corroborated the many facts gathered by Factalive from many basic school teachers who refuse to be named that more than 90% of BECE candidates have their examinations written for them by teachers across the country.

The situation gets even more alarming because the least suspected, the so-called category A schools, have had their centers used as malpractice launchpads just for a penny.

As many Ghanaian youth storm social media apps like TikTok to make unhealthy, immoral and seductive videos, they leave their books behind with the assurance that their light-headed, poverty -stricken teachers will solve it for them for a penny while their district directors of Education will cast blind eye in a bid to satisfy Hon. Adutwum’s GES so-called performance contract agreement.

Watch excerpt of video here!