Mahama has produced more WASSCE candidates than Nana Addo has done even with free SHS
As West African Senior School Certificate Examination begun yesterday Monday 20th July 2020, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who’s the MP for North-Tongu in the Volta Region has come out to compare the number of candidates John Mahama has produced as compared to that of the ruling President, Nana Addo under free SHS. According to stats provided…
As West African Senior School Certificate Examination begun yesterday Monday 20th July 2020, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who’s the MP for North-Tongu in the Volta Region has come out to compare the number of candidates John Mahama has produced as compared to that of the ruling President, Nana Addo under free SHS.
According to stats provided in a Facebook post, Ablakwa revealed that Mahama has produced more candidates than Nana Addo although he didn’t implement free SHS during his tenure of office.
Read Ablakwa’s full post below:
“Despite all the chest-beating and noise making by our NPP friends, let’s pay attention to the facts:
Unimpeachable statistics from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) reveal that in 2012, a total of 174,461 candidates sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). This figure impressively shot up during the tenure of President John Mahama to 274,262 candidates who sat for the 2016 WASSCE. This represents an actual increment of a staggering 99,801. That is by some *57.2%* over the period.
Notwithstanding President Akufo-Addo’s much touted Free SHS policy which the NDC has always maintained could have been better implemented without Double Track and the attendant suffocating congestion; WASSCE candidate numbers have seen an unimpressive increase from the 2016 figure of 274,262 to 313,837 in 2020. This works out to an actual increase of a relatively low 39,575 *or a mere 14.4%*.
Therefore, in four years – President Mahama increased WASSCE candidates by 99,801 while President Akufo-Addo has increased same by only 39,575. A striking difference of 60,226. President Akufo-Addo’s comparative increase is far less than half of what his counterpart, President Mahama achieved in the same four year period.
Visionary and pragmatic policy interventions will always triumph in the final analysis over populist knee-jerk programmes.
I do sincerely wish the 2020 WASSCE candidates the best of luck as they sit for their exam tomorrow under this extraordinarily difficult COVID-19 circumstances. May God bless their sacrifices. ???”
