A Non-governmental organization, Challenging Heights has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate officials of the Computer Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) as it alleges of corruption in the placement process.
According to Challenging Heights, it has substantial evidence to prove that officers in charge of the CSSPS are illegally collecting monies, in order to place students in some particular Senior high schools where they would otherwise not have been placed.
The NGO also alleges that some of the officers are removing duly merited and placed candidates from their chosen schools, and placing students whose parents have paid bribes in their places.
These favoured students according to Challenging heights did not obtain the requisite raw scores.
The President of the NGO, James Kofi Annan speaking to Citi News said they have received several reports that the CSSPS is not transparent.
�We have evidence that some students had aggregate 8 and they have been posted to Wesley Girls so clearly it means that something is wrong. It is on the basis of this that we have petitioned CHRAJ to start an investigation into the Placement system and bring to book all officers who are engaged in such malpractices�.
Meanwhile, the director the computerized school selection and placement system Samuel Oppong has stated that it has successfully placed into various Senior High Schools, 176,288 candidates at the end of the placement process.
Later this week, access will be given to applicants who have been placed to start registering with their schools.
So far candidates can only check their placement status by texting their index numbers to the short code 1060.
The national secretariat of the CSSPS said all the anomalies encountered during the placement process have been corrected ahead of the official release of the entire placement list.
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