We join President Akufo-Addo in trumpeting the excellent results emanating from this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and to proceed thereof to congratulate the candidates.
With the first batch of the products of the free SHS which novelty naysayers did not give a dog’s chance of succeeding, performing well too, coupled with the improved feat of the just released one we cannot but commend the kids.
It takes a strong-willed leadership and focused to conceptualise a project and implement it in spite of deliberate efforts to bastardize it and hang it as in the case of the free SHS and the double track phenomenon.
A propaganda was engineered and implemented in multiple fronts to hound the President and his government out of the free SHS, the excuse being that it would dilute the quality of education in the country.
Last year’s results and the subsequent one this year has proven them wrong.
Rather than hide their heads in shame and express remorse for their conduct when they fought the free SHS project, they have gone into another lying mode.
What is being hailed as a great feat, the performance has been subjected to an assortment of verbal attacks without sound premises anyway. Â Sponsored persons are misinterpreting the excellent results to persons who hardly understand such subjects, the intention being to give the originator a negative image, their stock-in-trade.
Facts are of course sacred and will stand the test of time regardless of the machinations of killjoys. Over a million children some of who would have been denied senior high school education are now beneficiaries of this level of education thanks to the free SHS policy propelled by the vision of Nana Akufo-Addo.
They think about elections and not the development of the country. This is why they would go to any length to implement their mischievous project of mendacity and deception.
No amount of investment in education is too much. One of the attributes of education is that with it, there would one day be no longer vulnerable persons left for the NDC to prey upon.
The free SHS project has won leaving those who fought against it to behave like mongrels, their tails behind their hind legs, crestfallen and spotting bloodied noses.
In the coming years more feats would be chalked and many more would appreciate the importance of education and why it should be spared the lies of vote-seekers.
To parents, teachers and candidates we say bravo and more grease to your elbows as you prepare to climb the next notch on the academic ladder.