The hope of a 21-year-old Senior High School graduate of becoming a lawyer hangs in the balance as he has now turned into a Mobile Money vendor.
Master Osae Isaac, who lives in Kokomlemle, a suburb of Accra, sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 2019 and obtained aggregate 8 but has been unable to further his education into the tertiary due to financial challenges.
In an interview with Kofi Atakora of www.mybrytfmonline.com, the graduate of Kwaobaah/Nyanoa Community Day Senior High School detailed that he was born at Okurase, near Adeiso in the Eastern Region. Though his mother is a peasant farmer, he lost his father shortly after he completed his SHS education.
At the celebration of Ghana’s 63rd Independence Anniversary in Adeiso, the Assembly and Education Directorate acknowledged him by presenting a laptop and citation to him for his incredible performance in the WASSCE without any plans for the poor boy from the Assembly of assistance to enable him further his education to achieve his dreams of becoming a lawyer.
Master Osae intimated that he wants to enter into Law School to train as a lawyer but there is no one to help him financially.
He said, “I will be very happy if I get the support to further my education. I do MoMo under an umbrella now”.
The needy but brilliant said, “My teachers tried to seek help from the DCE but it has not been effective for now.”
The SHS graduate is among the first batch of students who benefited from the former President Mahama’s administration’s Community Day SHS.
Kwabaah/Nyanoa SHS is one of the 200 Community Day Schools promised by the Mahama government during the 2012 elections under the progressive Free SHS policy.
The project which took almost 20 months to complete became the first Community Day senior high school established by the government in the area.
It thus presented space for 1,080 JHS graduates whose fate would have been thwarted owing to inadequate space in existing SHSs.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
