School Placement Corruption: Abolish “protocol list” system – GII

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) , an anti-corruption organization, has called for the abolishment of the “protocol list” system in secondary schools under the Computerized School Selection and Placement System.  The Organization said the “protocol list” created loopholes for people to cheat and stressed that everybody must have fair and equal opportunity in the placement system.  The Fourth Estate, a media organisation, recently released a documentary, “School Placement for Sale”, which captured parents, guardians, and officials in charge of school placement allegedly making “deals” to put wards in desired institutions in 2022. 

Ghana has been ranked 72nd on the 2022 global Corruption Percep­tions Index (CPI) on score of 43 over 100 which is a repetition of its marks for the two previous years. However, the ranking for the two previous years were 75 for 2020 and 73rd for 2021. With the CPI score being the perceived level of public sector cor­ruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean, it means Ghana has not improved in the anti-graft fight. The CPI released yesterday by Transparency International (TI), the mother organisation of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Ghana with a score of 43, ranked 8th out of 49 countries in SSA which were included in the index which focused on corruption, conflict, and security, alongside Benin (43), Senegal (43), and South Africa (43).

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu has made some explosive allegations against Reverend Kusi Boateng who is the Secretary to the National Cathedral Board. In an earlier revelation about the National Cathedral, Okudzeto Ablakwa revealed that a whopping GH$2.6 million was dished out to a company named JNS Talent Centre Limited. Ablakwa's investigations into the alleged payment led to the discovery of one Kwabena Adu Gyamfi as a director of JNS Talent Centre. Having confirmed the identities of two out of three directors of the centre, Ablakwa went on an expedition to discover the identity of the third director, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi…

North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is calling for the head of Secretary of the National Cathedral Board of Trustees. He has accused Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng, who doubles as the founder of Power Chapel Worldwide, of conflict of interest including possession of multiple identities among other suspicious dealings. In an earlier post last week, the former Deputy Minister questioned the payment of GH¢2.6 million to a company named JNS Talent Centre Limited. He further alleged that the recipient company of the said ¢2.6m is “owned by Rev. Johannes Eshun who describes himself as the spiritual son and protégé of Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng, Founder of Power Chapel Worldwide and Member/Secretary of the National Cathedral Board of Trustees.”...