In as much as condemning the assault on officials of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and a journalist, old students of Bright Senior High school has described the statement by the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council as unfortunate.
In a release on Tuesday, 11th August 2020, and signed by the Secretary, Doku Edmund Koranteng, the old students indicated that the traditional council cannot use the unfortunate situation to justify its demand to close down the school.
The Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council on Monday, 10th August 2020 called for the closure of the school as well as the immediate arrest of the Principal, Mr. Bright Amponsah after some WAEC officials and a journalist was allegedly assaulted by students writing the WASSCE exams due to misunderstanding that broke out during the Social Studies period.
The Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education have, however, relocated the examination to Ofori Panin Senior High School to enable continue writing the rest of their papers as the investigation is ongoing to deal with the matter.
But the old students in their statement, however, debunked assertion by the traditional council that, graduates from the school drop out of universities and other tertiary institutions, emphasizing, students from the school are studying in different institutions across the world.
The old student body is, therefore, urging the general public to treat the statement from the traditional authority as a sheer grammatical construction, hence need not be considered.
Full statement below:
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
