Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a member of parliament for North Tongu, urges the government to eliminate the protocol system in the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
The Fourth Estate documentary "School placement for Sale," which detailed how some people sold the school placement slot to some category "A" schools for as high as GHC20,000, prompted Mr. Ablakwa's call.
The congressman asserted that eliminating the protocol system is the only surefire solution to the issue during an appearance on Tuesday's JoyNews AM Show.
He asserts that there is no need for such a system and that admission to senior high schools should be determined by merit.
"There is just no justification for this to occur. Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyeman was quite passionate about the no protocol policy that we [the NDC] proclaimed when we were at the Ministry.
This is the result of creating protocol systems. We must do away with formality and let success be determined by merit. Eliminate the user interface window. We claim to be creating a computerised system, so make it one.
However, the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, explained the need for such a system on GTV's Breakfast show on Monday.
He said for the previous years, there has been a special protocol in the school selection placement system for important stakeholders like chiefs, churches, and old students who contribute to the development of the educational system.
He emphasised, however, that the Ministry will not permit anything that might jeopardise the school placement system's procedure.
How can I inform the Moderator of The Church- Presbyterian Church that I won't let you to send five or ten children to the School that You started, continue to sponsor, and offer resources to?
"Therefore, it is a system that we acquired. Unfortunately, individuals are accessing resources that have been reserved for these important supporters of education in the nation by shady ways; this needs to stop, and that is why I support the documentary, he said.
The Education Ministry claims, however, that steps have been taken to avoid fraud in the
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