Emmanuel Boam Kwaku, Member of Parliament for Pru East, has claimed that Ghanaian universities are rejecting qualified students from specific regions and secondary schools due to widespread exam malpractices tainting their credentials.
Speaking on Kumasi based Abusua965 FM current affairs program monitored by Kumasi Mail, Mr. Boam described the secondary school exam cheating as “alarming,” putting entire constituencies at risk of losing access to higher education.
Mr. Boam urged addressing malpractice comprehensively, drawing parallels to healthcare where patients do not question practitioners’ training eras whether under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) or National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He said, “Today, if you go to a hospital and a nurse is given drugs, you won’t ask whether he completed school during the NDC regime or NPP because we believe the institutions we’ve are able to teach students to become good leaders in society.”
He cited personal experience, noting that even students qualifying for competitive programs like medicine face rejection because universities distrust results from implicated schools.
“But it has come to a point where we’ve universities in Ghana here that if you are from a particular region, constituency, and you qualify for medical school, they won’t admit you. I am talking from experience,” the Mp disclosed.
When the host expressed shock, emphasizing the seriousness of this situation, Mr. Emmanuel explained, “I am talking from experience. Because I am on radio, I can’t mention names, but we have students who have passed from schools in this country, from certain regions, to do medical courses, but the school says it won’t admit them because the school they’re coming from, they know, were assisted to write the exams. They were helped to pass.”
The host again stressed that, with this clarification, the issue stems not from the students’ origins but from schools known for irregularities, to which Mr. Boam affirmed the education sector’s awareness.
The MP pointed out in response, stating rhetorically, “So, have you seen the system we are building? Do you think the education sector doesn’t know about this matter? They know!”
Source: www.Kumasimail.com
