There is an increasing anxiety among some residents of Yendi in the Northern Region following attempts by authorities of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to deny one Miss Yakubu Hasanatu as a beneficiary of the President’s BECE award.
According to reports, there is secret effort to deny the student who was invited for an interview and selected only to be dropped days to the event and replaced with someone he secured relatively weaker scores in the exams.
However, The Municipal Chief Executive for the Yendi, Alhaji Abubakari H. Yusuf has petitioned the president Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene and ensure that the president’s annual award to students who excelled in the Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE is given to the deserving student from that part of the country.
In the petition sighted by Prime News, the MCE insisted that the award should instead be given to one Miss Yakubu Hasantu, a student from his Municipality whom he said had attained seven Ones in the BECE.
The MCE is, therefore, calling on the president to ensure that the right person is awarded to ensure fairness and justice.
“She was invited for an interview which she attended. After the interview, she was informed that she has been selected for the award. Her parents were duly informed to prepare her for the award. Surprisingly, I got information that she has been replaced by someone who obtained five ones.â€
“It is this backdrop that, I have tendered in this petition on her behalf for your Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana to intervene for the right thing to be done, for justice and fairness to prevail in this matter, please,†the MCE added in the petition.
The award scheme instituted years ago is aimed at motivating students for displaying academic excellence in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
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