Many people were outraged when the Ghana Education Service made a student travel 428 kilometers to receive the GHc200 award as the best student.
According to reports, some GES officials in the Gushegu District forced a student from the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS) to travel just to receive GHc200 for being the best WASSCE student at the time.
Abdul-Latif Fawei was named the best student in the Gushegu district in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) after the results were released in 2022.
In order to reward him for being the brightest student with a good grade, the Ghana Education Service asked the young man, who is now in university, to come to Gushegu district for his reward.
The young man was said to have traveled 306 kilometers from Wa to Tamale and another 122 kilometers to Gushegu at the request of officials in order to receive the award.
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“I went to Gushegu on the 6th March day that was yesterday for the award as best WASSCE student of Gushegu SHS,” he told the media. The education director handed me an envelope containing 200 ghc”.
