Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has lashed out at critics of the latest West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, indicating that this is the best so far since the introduction of the Free SHS programme in September 2017.
Some critics including the deputy ranking member on the education committee in Parliament, Clement Apaak have described as fraudulent the narrative around the 2023 WASSCE result.
According to Apaak, it is dishonest on the part of anyone to compare results of Ghanaian students, who wrote the regional level WASSCE before 2020, to those who wrote the customised Ghana WASSCE or GHASSCE, from 2020 to the present.
Sharing his thoughts on the issue on Facebook on Tuesday (19 December), Bawumia questioned the motive of those who are trying to politicise the results.
“Our SHS students go from Keta SHS to Harvard University and excel. Our girls at Mamfe Senior High go for a world competition in robotics and win against teams from the USA, Germany and South Korea. Our boys from Prempeh College have won robotics world competitions against global competitors many times,” he wrote on Facebook.
“Yet when these same students excel at WASSCE some people for political reasons even question the integrity of their results! Why do some always believe that it is impossible for our students or our people to be the best?”
“It is possible!Congratulations to WASSCE students for their excellent performance in the examination,” Bawumia added.
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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