Ghanaians are advocating for President-elect John Dramani Mahama to retain the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe Constituency, Dr Osei Yaw Adutwum as the Minister of Education in his second term administration.
The call for Dr Adutwum to be retained as the Education Minister comes after the Africa Education Watch Director, Kofi Asare in a social media post sighted by Pretertiary.com asked “If there was one NPP Minister you wished would remain, who would that be?
While the majority of social media users who reacted to the question endorsed the retainment of Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to be the Minister in Charge of Education in Mahama’s next government others condemned his comeback.
A social media user against the Bosomtwe Member of Parliament’s re-appointment as Education Minister for instance said “For the first time under his watch, WAEC is unable to release the WASSCE results due to the mess they created in the education sector.
He supervised quantity education as against quality. This year’s BECE candidates sat for exams without having access to a single government-approved textbook. How can you change the curriculum and fail to accompany it with Textbooks?
To date, the government-approved textbooks which were supplied to JHS schools are only: Mathematics, Science, English language, and Creative Arts, meanwhile we are now doing 9 subjects and these books cover only JHS 1-2.
This means the current Form 3 students will suffer the same fate as their seniors. If you are not close to the classroom, you will think all is well in the sector. From indiscipline to poor academic work.
A form 3 student doesn’t care about BECE because he knew Kwesi who got a very horrible grade got placement.
A firm two student knows whether he is she fails or not he or will be promoted because the government banned repetition.
The student can misbehave towards you a teacher because he knows nobody can punish him. Such a Minister is not recommendable.”
Dr Yaw Adutwum served as the Deputy Minister of Education in Akufo-Addo’s first term of government but was later made the substantive Minister of Education in Nana Addo’s second term administration after his re-election as President in 2020.
Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has been tipped to be appointed as the Minister of Education in President-elect John Dramani Mahama’s second term of government starting January 2025.
An Asaase News source close to the President-elect who disclosed Haruna Iddrisu as Ghana’s next Education Minister said there are a total of only 60 ministerial and deputy ministerial slots including 16 regional slots to be filled in Mahama’s second administration.
