By: Jennifer Frimpong Wiredu
Spokesperson for Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Yaw Opoku Mensah, has strongly criticised the Ghana Education Service (GES) following its recent press release on the 2025 WASSCE results, describing the statement as “a shameful political attempt to cover up leadership failure.”
According to him, instead of accepting responsibility for the poor outcomes, the GES has chosen to defend what he describes as unacceptable examination results that have left thousands of parents deeply disappointed.
He argues that key interventions that previously contributed to strong WASSCE performances have been abandoned, creating the foundation for the drop in results.
There is no sense of urgency leading to poor preparation by the leadership of the Ghana Education Service. It is unacceptable to toy with the future of these young students through your inertia resulting in this mass failure.
“Academic Intervention grant disbursed to schools to provide extra academic interventions in senior high schools has been cancelled.
WAEC subject-teacher training has been cancelled. All these deliberate interventions boosted earlier performances. The results should not surprise anyone.”
Yaw Opoku Mensah insists that Point 7 of the GES statement which claimed that heightened invigilation and increased malpractice arrests led to the outcomes is only an attempt to shift attention away from deeper systemic failures within the current management of education.
Malpractice Figures Disprove GES Claims
He further argues that WAEC’s own statistics show that exam monitoring has not changed drastically from previous years, proving that 2025 is not a unique case of heightened supervision as GES suggests.
Data from 2021 to 2025 show that irregularities and sanctions have been consistent across the years, meaning the 2025 WASSCE results cannot be explained away by “tight invigilation.”
Instead, he says the trend reflects deteriorating educational systems, not improved monitoring.
Call for Accountability
Yaw Opoku Mensah insists that the government must be held responsible for the declining academic outcomes and must immediately outline clear measures to prepare students ahead of the 2026 WASSCE.
“Parents deserve an apology. Students deserve better preparation. And the GES must take responsibility rather than hide behind press statements.”
He concludes that the GES must stop politicizing the situation and confront the real issues, lack of interventions, weakened teacher support, collapsing preparation structures, and inadequate leadership at the top.
