CSSPS chaos: NDC offers food, drinks to stranded parents and students at Independence Square
The Deputy Women’s Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that her party will not pretend to be blind to the plight of stranded parents and students who have gathered in the open at the Black Star Square as a result of issues with the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
The party has been in the news in the past 24 hours for providing food items such as water, drinks, biscuits and meat pie to the parents and students who according to them, have been at the Black Star Square following the directive of the Ghana Education Service.
In an interview with the Deputy National Women’s Organizer, Abigail Elorm Mensah, she told The Ghana Report that contrary to what other people may think, what they did yesterday was just a party gesture which should not be politicised.
“It’s just a party gesture. We saw pictures from Monday and we thought that they had been in the sun for too long and we could do something for them,” she said.
She added that the party has more of such items available to distribute to the stranded parents and students if the situation remains the same. She also noted that they have seen messages that are directing people to regional centers and the party is putting in measures to feed people at those centers too should there be a similar situation.
Since Monday, there have been videos and pictures of several parents and students who have been stranded at the Black Star Square in Accra to secure or change their Senior High School placement.
Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Dr. K.B Tandoh, has meanwhile insisted that the challenges with the placement should be resolved by the end of the week. He explains that the chaos is a result of a number of things including the demand for new placements by persons who have already been placed.
“For the most part, 90 percent of the people at the independence square already have schools… most people there, what I would say is that, they are shopping for better schools,” he said on Citi TV.