President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Education to engage the Ghana Education Service to reconsider its decision to ban some 14 students who were dismissed from the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
The students were handed the punishment for their involvement in attacks on the President, examination officials and destruction of school property.
A statement signed by Director of Communications at the Presidency Eugene Arhin said “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 acts of indiscipline.”
The statement added that the President believes everyone deserves a second chance in life and hence proposes the students be allowed to write their examinations.
