Editor-in-chief of the Fourth Estate, Manasseh Azure Awuni has alleged that some bigwigs at the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service are benefiting from the sale of school placement in the country.
Speaking on the ‘GTV Breakfast Show’, he disclosed that efforts to get state security to carry out further investigations into the “Cash for Placement” exposé and to arrest individuals found culpable have proved futile.
“Professor Opoku Amankwah wrote to the BNI, now NIB to come and investigate. They started and then stopped. Eventually, they wrote a letter to us to direct our request to the CID at the Headquarters. The CID also came after a week, he also stopped”, he narrated.
He added that there is evidence that the investigation was stopped by certain powerful people for obvious reasons.
“We got this information when we were doing our investigation that the Director General, Professor Opoku Amankwah did not have the investigation done because certain powers from above made the security agency stop the investigation”, he alleged.
Mr. Awuni called on the Ministry of Education to be proactive in bringing the perpetrators to book. He, however, stated that his outfit will act based upon advice from their lawyers.
Meanwhile, 8 persons have been arrested by the police following the broadcast of the investigative piece .
“School Placement for Sale” is an investigative piece by the Fourth Estate that reveals how some parents pay huge amounts of money to officials within the Ministry of Education to allow placement of their wards into category A schools.
