NDC MP 'angry' after constituent allegedly paid GH¢30,000 for SHS placement

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  • Yes 2 months ago

    Is the MP saying this now because his govt is in power or "genuinely" believe this is bad?. Less than a year and you are already complaining about something the likes of you used as campaign method bastardised npp govt. Plea ...
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  • FRANKIE 2 months ago

    The Computerized Placement System is a bogus and useless policy which must be scrapped with immediate effect. The system is inefficient, ineffective and very corrupt. How can one person, (usually the education minister and hi ...
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  • Karikakchar 2 months ago

    Is the MP saying among other things that people go to school mainly to pay their way to become MPs or presidents? The last person I want to hear talk about corruption is an MP. Do all of them not bribe delegates to get the pa ...
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  • Apraku 2 months ago

    The CSSPS has been functioning all these years or? Why all of a sudden these hickups? Greedy bastards are dipping their hands into the system.Earlier you selected schools of your choice even before going to write your BECE, a ...
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  • Sam 2 months ago

    You are a thief. You wil die before your time.FRAUD

  • NDC MP JUST DOING PROPAGANDA OR REALLY ANGRY 2 months ago

    Mr MP this is pure corruption that you should have immediately reported it to the police to handle the matter. If you the ruling NDC government MP will go and sit at radio station and express anger there, it tells me you don' ...
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  • Londoner 2 months ago

    In case you still don't know the diabolic tactics of this evil political party called NDC, I'll state the end goal for creating this brouhaha. Just watch the space as NDC starts propagating to purchase a new IT system to comb ...
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  • You're 100% right. NDC looting brigade 2 months ago

    Ghanaians love corrupt leaders

  • AMB 2 months ago

    Let’s take the lessons and make an effort to implement corrective measures. We don’t need to politicize things.

  • Esi 2 months ago

    SAY IT LOUDER

  • Soso 2 months ago

    Is the computer placement selection done by human beings or computer? You see the corruption is in the DNA of most black African people in the continent and in Ghana it's like water we drink. If it's not stupidity how would y ...
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  • Truth 2 months ago

    Anyone who OWNS their own school and DOES NOT accept ANY government money is free to do as they please within the confines of the law. One cedi of government money brings government oversight.

    Don't want to follow the gov ...
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  • Shai 2 months ago

    The whole thing has to be scraped. I think we must adopt the European model. All children must attend school within a 2 kilometres radius from their home up to shs level. Boarding system must also be abolished. It is outdated ...
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  • Kwaku 2 months ago

    The truly best for Ghana will cost you votes. Populism will win you power so as we are interested in power and not the good of Ghana, we will always chose the easy way that will attract people. Soon, we will promise free ...
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  • Poor transportation not ideal for mass day students 2 months ago

    The boarding school system is still valid because of several advantages. Cohesion amongst students from varied backgrounds, Independence of mind and self responsibility, efficiency in education, discipline, neatness, diligen ...
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  • Sappey Agboh 2 months ago

    I think you got the suggestion from one of the contributers (Shai) wrong. He mentioned the system that pertains in the UK or Europe. State schools in the UK for example are established within the community. Over 80% of studen ...
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  • Sappey Agboh 2 months ago

    You couldn't have said it any better. This simple logic is not lost on our leaders, yet we continue to do the wrong thing, expecting different outcomes. We complain and rightly so about the cost of the free SHS policy. Howeve ...
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  • Akiti 2 months ago

    Frankie, I believe that the so-called computerized placement system is the best bet we have in the resolution of the problem at hand. That system just needs to be reprogrammed a bit better and better along each step of the wa ...
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  • Cooon 2 months ago

    I don't agree. Every system of this nature comes with challenges but that doesn't mean the system is totally bad. The system was designed to eliminate corruption and prevent the creation of a class society regardless of perfo ...
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  • SAEED OSMAN 2 months ago

    Let's get ride of NPP remnants still at certain positions and all these madness which was part of NPP create, loot and share will end. Every policy of Nana Addo has an ulterior motives behind it, ie to steal.

  • Pelicles. 2 months ago

    FRANKIE, NDC has "STICKY FINGERS", and you know it. When NDC is in power, anything they touch, instantly get destroyed. This computerized placing system was functioning alright till NDC came in and disaster struck why because ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 2 months ago

    Any I.T. software that allows human intervention is bond to fail. Protocol admissions is the main reason why the Computer placement software is not working. The longterm solution is to merge JHS & SHS. Let our kids stay home ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 2 months ago

    I.T. software is bound to fail due to human intervention I meant

  • Sammy 2 months ago

    You are making no sense, only by writing sake. The Placement system is bad and both have confirm that it is bad and has to be fixed even yesterday Education Minister was saying it, so what nonsense you talking about?

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  • Broni Panayoti 2 months ago

    Why did this mp not cause the arrest of the bribe taker based on the evidence he had? But just said it in the media without specifying any action against the bribe taker! Action is needed, not passive talk!

  • TWEAA DC 2 months ago

    PAYING SO MUCH FOR ADMISSION IS GOOD...THAT IS WHAT GHANAIANS VOTED FOR...THOSE WHO CAN PAY SHOULD GO TO SCHOOL...THOSE WHO CANNOT PAY SHOULD STAY AT HOME AND 24HRS ECONOMY WILL ABSOLVE ALL OF YOU...THE BEST SYSTEM HEADED BY ...
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  • Why didn't you cause for his arrested 2 months ago

    Mp ,why didn't you led them to report to police

  • Adzei 2 months ago

    Why not mention the school!

  • Akiti 2 months ago

    By the way, am I right in sensing that the tone of the MPs complaint suggests a normalizing of these misdeeds? His unperturbed emotions, as his language explicitly reveals, do not indicate that he is sufficiently disgusted by ...
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  • Cole 2 months ago

    Is your head working? At least he's not an hypocrite. He's condemning it while it has happened under his gobt and he's doing it openly to draw attention. Under npp the ministers office was implicated what happened

  • Steve Kaye London 2 months ago

    The MCEs and DCEs you talked about are all corrupt officials appointed by John Odwanfunu Mahama so they wouldn't make any impact when they are asked to supervise.

  • Abotsi 2 months ago

    But it is not NAADA who is in poet

  • Kwame Peter 2 months ago

    Foolish MP. So what concrete actions have you taken to bring the culprits to book? As an MP with all your infuence. Forward the details to Minister of Education and GES Director for action. Instead of coming to sit on radio t ...
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  • Ghana ba 2 months ago

    Dear MP, submit the evidence to the relevant authorities for action. Ranting on radio alone won't solve the problem. Or at least name and shame the culprit.

  • Cuntiki 2 months ago

    It’s Achimota.
    Just go straight to the point.

  • Forlifive 2 months ago

    The government must investigate this and punish people for that. this is very true. The placement was done to inconvenient students and parents if not how come someone how has schooled all through school in the city and thr ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 2 months ago

    Let's scrap the BECE & WASSCE and merge the 2. Govt shd also abolish boarding housing. We need a bold and brave leader to take this decision. Students will there4 be forced to stay in their locality till they are 18 to write ...
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  • Same like women with makeup 2 months ago

    100% agree

  • Mr no nonsense 2 months ago

    See this fool,scrap your mother and father idiot,no wonder,most of you people in the NDC don't think before you comment

  • Kwaku Tee 2 months ago

    You're ignorant and not exposed.. India,Japan,South Korea,Sri Lanka,the whole North Africa etc are operating this system and it is helping their education. To inform you I wrote O & A Levels b4 furthering.I also had an exper ...
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  • Johnny 2 months ago

    In Russia the 1st external exams students write is at 18, which is University Entrance exams. They can also use the same results to Poly..Russia is far richer than any African country but they don't operate boarding housing. ...
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  • Boarding System is Worth It!! 2 months ago

    For a great number of students without that 3 square boading meal their parents would not be able to afford them the opportunity to go to school.

    For a great number of girls wirhput the boarding school their education woul ...
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  • Forlifive 2 months ago

    My daughter who schooled all her life in kumasi but thrown to a village school hoping I will pay bribe to change her school and that is insane

  • Donatus 2 months ago

    ORAL must apply here as well. Quickly, quickly.

  • Forlifive 2 months ago

    I'm very sad the school my daughter was placed in as the school is so dilapidated that it it's difficult asking why an shs will be like that at this so called Morden time

  • Donatus 2 months ago

    Common school placement, Africans cannot do it. And we are quick to blame Whiteman for our woes. Corruption galore!

  • Donatus 2 months ago

    I pity Africans seriously. what is wrong with us at all?

  • Akiti 2 months ago

    Mr Donatus, of course we should blame the Whiteman for most of our woes. If you could kindly open your myopic eyes a bit wider, you will realize that he is still very much in control of virtually all that we do - including le ...
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  • Donatus 2 months ago

    We don't know anything, that's why they are leading. We cannot do anything for ourselves.

  • Onyame 2 months ago

    Politicians should stay away from the school placement system. The whole society is corrupt period. The idea of ending the double tracking in one academic year without expanding infrastructure has contributed to the difficult ...
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  • Lopez 2 months ago

    So who is this Mp complaining to? What he should be telling Ghanaians was to investigate and arrest those involved, instead of wailing his hands in the air and telling us this nonsense. Whatever mistake the previous governmen ...
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  • kk 2 months ago

    why are we surprised. we are a dishonest dishonest people. from church leaders to the child in JHS.

  • UK boy 2 months ago

    Most of the school heads are collecting money from paterents, corruption everywhere

  • Kofi 2 months ago

    This can never stop the more you jail the teachers the more they charge high. The government should introduce a system that students get their choices.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 2 months ago

    Hahahaha. The DCEs, MCEs are even more corrupt. Paying to get the admission for a ward or child to get to preferred High School and even the preferred Course at the Universities is not something new. Even during the supposed ...
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  • Truth 2 months ago

    He should be angry at his constituent -- the scofflaw -- who bribed his child into a better school.

    His voters should be angry at HIM for exposing himself as sympathetic to criminals.

  • NDC IS A SCAM 2 months ago

    Stupid hypocrite. You don’t know about this evil and canker?

    Fix it and stop complaining.

  • Joy 2 months ago

    3000 or 30,000 ? Ghanaweb you better give us a right figure before I start my insult.

  • FRANKIE 2 months ago

    ¢30,000. Please don't insult anyone. It's happening. It's real. I know what I'm talking about.

  • FOYOOSIS 2 months ago

    @Frankie, I don't believe it's 30,000 but here you are claiming it is. Why would you convince anyone that it's truly 30000 or in that range authorities are charging parents to get their wards admitted to their preferred schoo ...
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  • Abugre 2 months ago

    Where is national security who arrested the innocent persons for alledging the existence of the practice

  • kwaku-t 2 months ago

    This MP should be hauled before the SP to substantiate his allegation, failure to which he should be sacked from Parliament for such balantile lies

  • Amuzu David 2 months ago

    It is annoying for an mp to be making such disclosure. What kind of evidence had the person represented to him? Will he be willing to help the police for investigation to be conducted?
    Alternatively, how much had he paid to ...
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  • Christopher Ang-Nieten Dassah 2 months ago

    I think anyone that is doing this should be sacked

  • Jimbo 2 months ago

    This kind of bribery in school placement never happened when NPP was in power. These people are well noted for this kind of bribes. What a shame!!!. Y3 nfa ny3 mo. Otwea!!!

  • Aconitase 2 months ago

    @Jimbo your comment is very untrue and not intellectually sound. To create the impression that the abuses in the SHS placement system started just after the NDC took office in January 2025 is not just nauseating but hypocriti ...
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  • Esi 2 months ago

    Bribery for placement didn't start today please.
    The amount is now getting huge

  • King Deed 2 months ago

    Very useless parents!! Your child ddnt pass exams, therefore ddnt get their choice schools and you have 30k to pay bribe. Then why worry the MP again??? Gyimi mu pro max! Unnecessary pressure kwa!! Even university education d ...
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  • Jojoba 2 months ago

    It's rather unfortunate. Even a nursing school which my ward had qualified for was demanding 6000 for protocol admission. Just because I didn't have that amount, my ward could not get the admission. My ward has been at home f ...
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  • Yaw 2 months ago

    We told you about NDC and their character but Ghanaian's didn't listen to the NPP next year will be worse and what is he saying DCE's and MCE's should do what to send people there to compound the corruption which is going on

  • Charles 2 months ago

    The Minister of Education should react swiftly and have the Headmaster arrested, prosecuted and jailed. We should intensify the fight against corruption on all fronts and not concentrate only on ORAL. We should all help to re ...
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  • J.H.Osei Kumasi 2 months ago

    Stupid MP, why can't you name the school so that action can be talking reader you are just saying all those stupidity stories. lt means your government is out of control in such a way that everybody in education center try ...
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  • Kojo poku-London UK 2 months ago

    It will NEVER work. Everyone in Ghana is corrupt. Anyone nominated will start taking bribes as well. It's a vicious cycle

  • Jaja 2 months ago

    This is what you get when you vote for a corrupt president. The whole government is corrupt as their leader

  • Elton 2 months ago

    You are pretentiously ranting in your own government without having the balls to mention the school in question and expecting to be taken serious? Perhaps that cedis 30,000 slipped through your fingers when you delayed in hel ...
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  • Aja 2 months ago

    Nonsense do you need any qualification to become an MP or president
    All you need is money and godfathers and be prepared to be corrupt

  • Abusuapanin 2 months ago

    The AZAAR NDC government is spoiling Free SHS. Such things never happened under NPP government. Parents deserve this suffering. They chose NDC so why are they crying? Free SHS is dead. These NDC ANIMALS are incompetent. When ...
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  • Kk 2 months ago

    Why should your constituent come to see you for assistance? If we all are disciplined and knowing that there’s a system for placement, why must someone go to an official for assistance? It only shows the rot in the country ...
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  • Badiako the future president 2 months ago

    Hon dont say you are new to this scheme of parents coughing to pay for placement.It is there long time so stop to pretend that you dont know that this exist all over the country.

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  • Ananse System 2 months ago

    Ghanaians are just born bad. They only use religion as a cover up.

  • Esi 2 months ago

    Is it news?
    Mr mp is it about paying for placement or the volume of the money?
    Are you a stranger in ghana?
    PLEASE THIS IS HOW BAD THE CSSPS HAS GOTTEN
    THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUGGESTING TO SUPERVISE WILL WORSEN THE CORRUPTION

  • Justice 2 months ago

    That is the level Ghanaian leaders have taken Ghana to. God will punish those making others to suffer because of greed.

  • Ted 2 months ago

    Whom are you blaming? Why can't you take this matter up to demand accountability? You are an MP. Stop behaving and complaining like an ordinary person.You can do something to stop these corrupt practices. Carry out investigat ...
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  • Ohene 2 months ago

    The same is happening to slots given to some party goons on the Army Recruitment. It is absurd a country we are ruling.

  • Ben K 2 months ago

    I listened to this interview and the MP didn’t say the person is from his constituents. The woman is in the neighborhood where he leaves.
    And he chipped in this case because he was talking about the corrupt nature of many ...
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  • Onipaba 2 months ago

    This what happens when the blind govern the idiots

  • Concern citizen 2 months ago

    Because of corruption the teachers voted for NDC. Ghanaians should reap what they sow. We said we have enough to pay for our children so Nana Addo NPP should take their bogus FSHS. Mr Mahama give the people what they want bec ...
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  • Kwabena Manu 2 months ago

    The government and GES must abolish the categorization of schools as category A,B,C and D. There shouldn't be any category A,B, Cn D. It is the categorization that putting pressure on some schools. In times past there was no ...
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  • Wasteman 2 months ago

    THATS HOW ADUTWUM AND NAPO BECAME RICH!!!

  • Sammy 2 months ago

    As for me, the computerized placement is the best. At least, I don't have to send guinea fowl and yarn to a headmaster before my ward is picked. It is those who want to have first class schools for their wards at all cost who ...
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  • EKOW MARK 2 months ago

    What is President Mahama doing about what his own MP is alleging? ' I challenge the President to take action if indeed he is really fighting corruption. Is that the resetting we voted for ?' I will be highly disappointed in ...
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  • Peter 2 months ago

    This guy is so stupid. Is being an MP or a President the highest achievements of this life. In some countries people strive and with overwhelming joy express how they feel about winning the Nobel subject prices. There are man ...
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  • Kwame 2 months ago

    This evil has been in existence for years.Either we live with it or fight it ruthlessly.

  • THERE IS A SOLUTION HERE 2 months ago

    All that I will ask of you MP is treat this matter as urgent. Let the government open up complaint office for people who may have suffered this ill treatment to come and report. Fortunately for us, most of these people will h ...
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  • NDC govt bent on collapsing quality education 2 months ago

    Why should this happen under NDC and the MP is not bringing the bribe takers to book. Corruption under NDC is like 7 & 8

  • Jojo 2 months ago

    A certain school, an individual how mention their names Shame them tomorrow others won't do that

  • lesley 2 months ago

    This was what undone the free SHS under NPP. When the president and his appointees were applauding the free SHS policy, parents were paying monies to secure placements, paying unauthorized fees, etc behind the scenes. The gov ...
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  • Kofi 2 months ago

    Corruption involves two people. The giver and the taker. Both should be arrested.

  • Dagbe. 2 months ago

    Fake news.

  • James 2 months ago

    am disappointed in this mp, he claimed that he had the evidence of paying that 30,000cedis, why he didn't investigate the cancer? He has the right as an MP to report this matter to the authorities

  • Spintex 2 months ago

    You came on TV to say this and so we should do what? Who paid the money and to whom? Why didn't he mention the name of person or the school the money was paid to? The Ghana Education Services served notice to all parents not ...
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  • Ch 2 months ago

    Be there and be fooling, People are ther sabotaging and instead of taking action them, you allowing them and they are messing up. People are paying over that, Just yesterday another member also paid 5000gh to get placement fo ...
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  • Ghana K 2 months ago

    Canker not only in school admission but job employment. God save Ghana.

  • chief vandal 2 months ago

    Is becoming an MP or President such an aspiration?

  • Mark Edwards 2 months ago

    If we wanted to solve this problem, it would be easy koraa! Infiltrate the system with national security personnel and flush out the bad nuts. Clearly, we are not interested in curtailing the corruption

  • John Martin 2 months ago

    They are the most corrupt people in our country.

  • John Martin 2 months ago

    Rotten society

  • SD.com 2 months ago

    Don't you know the reason? Somebody goes to a class A boarding house to eat and sleep for free, and I go to a day school, taking transport and and be on empty stomach, if my parents can't afford for my food: what do you ex ...
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  • Kofi 2 months ago

    The MP should stop lamenting and assist the police to apprehend the criminals.
    The computer always have the code of the one who made the entry.

  • Neutralman 2 months ago

    I remember sometime ago the Minister of Education said he will punish those who take money from parents to place their wards in their preferred schools. Now that an MP has come out with enough evidence that someone has taken ...
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  • NDC NPP SAME DEVILy 2 months ago

    If u can't mention the name of the school then shut your smelly mouth up!

  • AyyBeeCee 2 months ago

    Silly.
    Is being an MP or a president the highest achievement in life.
    Is any of you famous and popular than Albert Einstein?

  • YET MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND NDC PARTY SAY THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE NOT TRUE. 2 months ago

    We have some secret videos of some of these monies being paid to these corrupt schools placement officials and they will be released to the public at the appropriate time. More monies have changed hands to these schools plac ...
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  • Proof. 2 months ago

    Throughout his submission he never made mention the name of such particular school and the name of person through whom the transaction was made so in this the mp equally corrupt because he's condoning and conniving with that ...
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  • WATCH OUT FOR YOUR TURN 2 months ago

    Hmmmmmm, it’s a lesson to Ghanaians to know the difference between Nana ADDO Government of NPP replacement system and NDC government replacement system. Most Ghanaians said they can pay for their schools children school fe ...
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  • Francis Boateng 2 months ago

    Mahama reset for Ghanaians. Very sad.The minister of Education should be sacked asap.He is just incompetent. And this man wants to become president of Ghana.

  • moyoyo 2 months ago

    We did not hear this during Akuffo Addo time oooo my brothers NDC

  • Pelicles. 2 months ago

    NDC has "Sticky fingers" so anything they touch becomes a disaster. Did Ghanaians hear these problems under the NPP government if not, why now?

  • Holy Sinner 2 months ago

    AS SIMPLE as a, b , c d. The father and headmaster of the said school must be arrested for bribery and corruption and the dunderhead of a child be sent packing home. These. are parents who don't deserve to enjoy the stupid ...
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  • GILBERT ABILINSA 2 months ago

    Mr. MP Do your job!!!
    You are supposed to find out the Culprits and report the matter to the legal services incharge for proper redress!!!!!

  • Isaac 2 months ago

    Is it not annoying for your child to get agg 6 and be given her 2nd or 3rd choice sch? When others with worse grades got the same first choice sch. My daughter got 8 and didn't get her first choice, wegehey. Her classmate got ...
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  • Kwame Angel 2 months ago

    Go after the culprits, even if they are not in your constituency, and stop whining on national TV.

  • Naasei 1 month ago

    This MP should first be interrogated because he said he was pushing for that parent..how does he mean pushing?..why didnt he tell that parent, no this school placement is done by computerized and he the MP got no influence?.h ...
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