'My daughter can't speak Twi, yet she got Grade 1' - Former NMC Chairman questions BECE results

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  • Hmmm 1 month ago

    What a responsible father

  • AKP 1 month ago

    What's makes him responsible. I see him as an ignorant father. You can learn and pass a language that you're fluent in with distinction if you follow the rules. Do you know that alot of students pass French as a subject by le ...
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  • Botwe 1 month ago

    U are sooo right..n im surprised he feels soo comfortable acting a responsible daddy

  • Karikakchar 1 month ago

    The exam should revert to a multiple choice exam just like the defunct common entrance exam and a lot of these challenges may not come up. I can imagine that with the urgency to release results on time yhe examiners may not b ...
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  • Travis 1 month ago

    What is different from THIS mode of exams from what you are suggesting

  • FEARLESS 1 month ago

    Your brazen ignorance always precedes you just like your smelly kotoboto!

  • Arrest Him. 1 month ago

    A tribalistic man saw her Akan name and gave her the high mark. In the same breath the examiner will see a name different from that of Akan and mark him/her down.

  • Ablekuma Van Damme 1 month ago

    YOUR MOTHER!!!

    IF IT WORRYS YOU THAT AKANS ARE IN CONTROL IN GHANA YOU CAN ALSO TURN YOURSELF INTO AKAN. SIAFUI

  • Zongo Lachichi Results, NPP Style 1 month ago

    In the legacy of akufo-addo, Bawumia, Opoku Prempeh & Adutwum, it is highly possible. Weren't they going to score all, Grade-1 in Trumu-Trumu exam papers? Didn't Jean Mensa declare 3 results?

  • Fact 1 month ago

    That man is very ignorant. Such people are leading Ghana. Just imagine. We had lots of people coming from villages who could not speak English and pidgin but received English prizes and got grade 1 waec exams

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    What merit is there in simply passing a subject by following the rules if the knowledge and competence required to use it effectively are not actually there?

    Imagine someone being assigned to a department because the role ...
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  • AKP 1 month ago

    Know that BECE is not a specialisation level. It's just a requirement for placement.

  • Truetalk 1 month ago

    Children can speak English but can't write.
    What about this too?

    To pass means to know the rules and apply them.

  • Kay 1 month ago

    If an elected President President John Mahama cannot be sincere in the signing of Power Plant contracts, how do you expect teachers to be sincere in marking BECE papers. It's an infection from the Presidency

  • Truth 1 month ago

    Great and objective man

  • Chris 1 month ago

    May be his daughter copied. If so, her results should be cancelled. A very wise father, if only he is not trying to discredit happenings under a different government.

  • A+ 1 month ago

    That is exactly what he's doing over there. Useless old man in a woman's body. God will continue to punish you idiots for your silly "politricks" of witchcraft.

    I wish they investigate this idiot on this matter. Amina Yuto ...
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  • God will elevate Nigeria 1 month ago

    You people you lack knowledge. All you know is insulting responsible people. This nation is not a place to raise Children judging by the kind of people i see commenting on this Ghanaweb. Disgusting

  • tinubus saggy testicles 1 month ago

    HAHAHA THIS FOOL MUST BE EATING SHIT
    YOUR SMELLY NIGERIANS ARE FLEEING TO
    YOUR HEAVEN(GHANA) TO RAISE PROPER
    HUMAN BEINGS ONY3 SOOMI GHANA WILL
    NEVER FALL INTO THE GUTTER LIKE NIGERIA

  • Hmmmm 1 month ago

    Minister of Education please recall this girl's grades and remark it.

    Maybe, she was mistakenly awarded someone else's score.

  • Abbey 1 month ago

    Ignorant and political father. Your daughter not speaking Twi well does not mean she doesn’t understand it. Twi exams too is mostly objectives . Your daughter may also get help from her teachers during exams. Her whole resu ...
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  • Abubakar 1 month ago

    Indeed, what a responsible father! A typical lingual imperialist.

  • Baba MY 1 month ago

    It is simple. Your daughter was taught in the exams hall.

  • Mr Smith 1 month ago

    Baba My, I fully agree with you. Most private schools pay their way through in order to attract more students on the premise of having good teachers who teach well.

  • AKP 1 month ago

    It is possible for students to learn and pass a language that you're not fluent in it. If you're a serious student had the right teacher and resources. French is an example.

  • AMB 1 month ago

    There are people who speak bad English but can write very well. I hope his daughter is not in this category.

  • FESS 1 month ago

    Kwaseato kuraseni tokebele, stfu when people are talking!

  • HAPPY DAYS 1 month ago

    Wofa Yaw this thing you're doing is it good? You have just opened a Pandora box.

  • Akosat 1 month ago

    It's very normal for the child to understand twi, but can't speak it . My daughter had same, started learning twi in SHS, and after medical school, she speaks the language well, as she encounters her patients. So don't worry ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 month ago

    I once had a classmate in secondary school in the late 1969s who did not register for Twi when we were in Form Five. Yet, when our O Level results were released in August, he had obtained a Grade 1 in Twi. That qualified him ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 month ago

    In the late 1960s. Pardon me for the typographical error.

  • True Ghanaian 1 month ago

    She copied

  • Sam Fante warriort 1 month ago

    Man which country your daughter lives, in China or or Sudan ?An Ashanti living in Ghana and can't speak Twi ? Ashantis are criminals and every criminal is a liar. Nothing good comes out of Ashantis.

  • Obaa Sima 1 month ago

    Ask that again. I get so sick with Ghanaians looking on unconcerned when our languages are going extinct. Our level of insecurity is beyond imagination.

  • Abokyi 1 month ago

    @ Fanti Kenkey or whoever . Do they teach Science English and Maths , let alone the other subjects in twi , kanjaga or Anwona in Ghana here. Parents if you want your kids to survive their education in Ghana, allow them to ...
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  • MV 1 month ago

    This is not strange. My son is also not fluent in Twi, but he has been getting Grade 1 in his school

  • Abroampa 1 month ago

    Its just an open secret that the private schools sre just casting in and pushing the students through. No wonder they are churning out University graduates who cant even write their own names.

  • Opoku 1 month ago

    Shame onto you.

  • A.M. 1 month ago

    I know someone who got 3 in Asante Twi but does not know Twi at all. She went to a private school.

  • Great one 1 month ago

    It means private schools cheat in public exams, they feed the students results as the breeding farms they are

  • SOD 1 month ago

    Any good student can and should be able to learn any language as a subject and pass because just like the rest of the subjects, languages have rules and principles.
    We miss the mark when we see language as oral speech and ...
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  • Nii Akrama 1 month ago

    This man has failed as a Ghanaian father,you stay in the same house with ur daughter,u r not an English man but an Akan, n u are not ashame to tell us that ur daughter can't speak twi.
    Shame on u and your wife

  • Obaa Sima 1 month ago

    My concern exactly. How can we be so stupid and be overcome by so much insecurity, to the extent of allowing our local languages to go extinct. And he proudly makes it public that his daughter, living in Ghana and probably ...
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  • Great one 1 month ago

    So we should clap for you for raising in Ghana, a Twi speaking country your daughter who is unable to speak Twi, pray what language is she proficient in, dagbani?

  • Koo Nimo 1 month ago

    That is magic

  • Obaa Sima 1 month ago

    Ridiculous. You are proud that your native language is on the verge of extinction. Shameful and disheartening.

  • Kennedy Agyepong 1 month ago

    Shame on u. U are proud that ur spoilt daughter can't speak Twi her own native language in Ghana. Many people in the diaspora teach their children in Ghanaian language and u will be surprised how fluent they are. Ur daughter ...
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  • PATRIOT. 1 month ago

    THIS MALADY GOES WAY BACK. THE IMBECILIC GHANAIAN UPPER CLASS HAVE ALWAYS CONSIDERED NOT SPEAKING A GHANAIAN LANGUAGE AS BADGE OF HONOUR. NOW EVEN THE MEMBERS OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED CLASSES SHARE THE SAME DELUSION.

  • Kay 1 month ago

    In fact this year's Bece results are terrible,something must be done about it.

  • Kwaku Mensah 1 month ago

    I'm surprised at the hypocritical shock being expressed by many people on this matter. It's an open secret that malpractices are commonplace in virtually all private schools when it comes to external examinations. I have work ...
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  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 1 month ago

    Master, you really know what you are saying.

    Thsie olden days where we have to gather at an SHS to write BECE, we moved and camped in the town of the SHS. WE shared same building with a popular private school in our area.
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  • Moityoyo 1 month ago

    It means that you bought the paper for her
    It not everything that we say on air or media papa be wise

  • Nii 1 month ago

    The parent didn't buy paper for the kids ooo,
    What the private schools do is that during the examination they secure one or two classroom for their students exclusively then during the exams more things happen. The whole exa ...
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  • Owura T 1 month ago

    And Mr Ayeboafo is proud that his daughter cannot speak TWI.

  • John K( I schooled with An EWE guy from Volta Region who couldn't speak Twi but was topping the whole 3 classes of120 students ) 1 month ago

    Mr. Eyeboafo should hasten slowly because some students specialized in learning just to past exams and they do that to perfection. I never attended General Paper class during our time but did specialization learning and I got ...
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  • ERLING OPONG 1 month ago

    AT YOUR AGE, YOUR DAUGHTERRIS NOW WRITING BECE?
    What a liar! Shame to you a trillion times trillion!!!

  • SD.com 1 month ago

    As3m aba

  • joebowy 1 month ago

    There is a difference between spoken language and written language. Is he trying to say that for the 3 years at JHS the daughter never scored 1 in Twi. Was she taught the language at all in school.
    ....but wait at this age ...
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  • KK 1 month ago

    No wonder the Saudis are paying our Edu Minister to get Arabic taught in our schools. Their agenda is to let Moslem take over West Africa and Gh is a strategic place for that. China want their language also to be taught in ou ...
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  • KK 1 month ago

    No wonder the Saudis are paying our Edu Minister to get Arabic taught in our schools. Their agenda is to let Moslem take over West Africa and Gh is a strategic place for that. China want their language also to be taught in ou ...
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  • Holy Sinner 1 month ago

    Yaw Boafo Ayebeafo....A typical Akan man and you are not even ASHAMED that at your daughters age she can't speak her mothers tongue. What a shame. You are an irresponsible Coyote who have failed your daughter big time

  • Arhinful 1 month ago

    The BECE Ghanaian Language exams do not test spoken competence. They primarily test reading and writing skills. There're countless number of students who have passed in languages they didn't speak. So that's no news.

  • Osonoba 1 month ago

    Is this guy not ashamed of saying that his daughter can't speak her local dialect? Anyone who forgets his or language losses their identity. Even some white people come to Ghana to study our language and we live in Ghana and ...
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  • KK 1 month ago

    Politics! Partisan politics has blinded this man. He's here talking rubbish as if the exam was an oral paper. Come to think of it, is he really telling us that with all those tones of local names he's carrying his daughter c ...
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  • Nana Kwame 1 month ago

    It was a written exam so if your daughter can't speak but she's smart enough to learn and write to pass, let her be. I learned to write French but wasn't good at speaking it so I chose not to speak it at all. This man's argum ...
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  • Ivory Mensah 1 month ago

    This man has won my respect. How many parents in Africa can be this sincere?

  • Koti 1 month ago

    GH for you, corruption is a subject taught from the basic level.

  • Gra 1 month ago

    This is irresponsible parenting. Your daughter has a very high IQ, which U lack

  • Esi 1 month ago

    She used her knowledge in English language.

  • Teacher 1 month ago

    Sometimes l cry for the future of this country. This man has said the truth and he’s being attached as if he’s killed somebody. Yet it’s very clear most of them know that the exam is always compromised. So do they all t ...
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  • Stupid mahama 1 month ago

    This man is one of those educated fools. Passing an exams is not about how good you can speak the language.

  • Psd 1 month ago

    Probably she was helped by a colleague or the teacher. WAEC should take it seriously and invite the man and the daughter. They should check the answer sheet of his daughter. If indeed the answers merit the A1 then the daughte ...
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  • Samurai 1 month ago

    Has it occured to you that your daughter copied from someone??

  • Abubakar 1 month ago

    Your name sounds Akanish and I supposed your daughter stays with you because, she didn't come from Mars nor Tajikistan to write the exams.If not an irresponsible parent, what language do you speak with her at home ? Or, you p ...
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  • Mother Ghana deserves better 1 month ago

    Good one there bro... this EFFUOM guy is like many other Akans Who refuse to speak twi with their Ghana born children and think that makes them special to communicate with them in English only.... PATHETIC!!!!

  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 1 month ago

    Sincere man. God bless you.

    Actually, private schools work hard to get the papers and even solve it for the students.

    Then when the results come, they perform well in order to attract more customers.
    I believe and trus ...
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  • Esa 1 month ago

    Is called integrity.

  • Kofi 1 month ago

    If educated people like former NMC boss talks like this, I wonder where this nation is heading to. If these are the people we handed over the leadership of this nation to no wonder Ghana is still like this.
    Ask your daughte ...
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  • Kyeremeh 1 month ago

    The School pay money for who are marketing the Exams, WAEC has WhatsApp groups which they send informations for the schools, if you pay the money and send them candidates index numbers to them

  • Kwabena Gyamfi 1 month ago

    By all means take on WAEC but it is a shame and scandalous that your daughter cannot speak your language.

    How did you raise her? It is unacceptable that a high ranking personality that you are will neglect to teach your d ...
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  • Mother Ghana deserves better 1 month ago

    Typical kurasini low IQ illiterate Ghana man... my daughter can't speak twi a big deal.... there's a lot of people like this EFFUOM guy who refuse to speak twi with their children in their house and they think is a big deal t ...
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  • ASEMPA 1 month ago

    My daughter couldn't speak French yet she had Grada 2, is just Chew Pour and Pass,they also cheat.

  • AAWWW-Shame 1 month ago

    a shame and low self-esteem that your child is not fluent in your mother's tongue. You have no class at all. My children are fervently going to YouTube to learn Twi. They were born in America, live, schooled and go to church ...
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  • Ak 1 month ago

    It means that all other grades from other subjects are questionable, not just TWI. Most schools cheat during the BECE examination. i.e. influencing invigilators, bringing foreign matrials in the examination room.

  • Bonus Baba 1 month ago

    This is a well nurtured Ghanaian. What a Father to have when every citizen of our nation has become EVERLASTING LIARS.
    THANK YOU DAD FOR YOUR HONESTY. GOD GIVE YOU LONGER LIFE THAN THE CHIEF OF YOU TRIBE!!!!!

  • Charles 1 month ago

    What on earth is happening in Ghana? There is even corruption in the grades awarded to our children. What is happening in the country? Mahama are you really serious with fighting corruption in the country? Why are people not ...
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  • Wayo 1 month ago

    Am more than happy. We have said it numerous times that WAEC is a joke. Even the marking scheme being used is more than funny. Meanwhile waec has failed a lot of people during the O level and A- Level times.
    More than nonse ...
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  • Sabrina 1 month ago

    Sad. Your daughter can't speak your language. Haven't you failed her.

  • Wayo 1 month ago

    From a very credible man to an incredible institution. Shame to WAEC... ...look at the number of students you've worried. ... They are at the head office paying themselves huge salaries.....at the expense of the poor taxpayer ...
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  • Charles 1 month ago

    I don't know this man too can be that ignorant. I passed French in university in my first degree at the time that i cannot speak or understand French. i just followed the rules plus guess work in objective questions.

  • Charles 1 month ago

    I don't know this man too can be that ignorant. I passed French in university in my first degree at the time that i cannot speak or understand French. i just followed the rules plus guess work in objective questions.

  • Ayewater 1 month ago

    Your daughter will be the best person to answer how she obtained grade 1 in twi. Whoever marked her script scored her based on what was written in her booklet. Or, is it that your daughter cheated?

  • Kk 1 month ago

    Dude,just exposed her daughters school ways and means. In fact your daughter didn't deserve any of the grades she got. She got it through ways and means.