Education Minister tells Parliament how senior high school students are now selling ‘weed’ on campuses and how he has directed GES to dismiss such students

Responding to a concern raised by a member of the House on growing indiscipline and drugs at the pre-tertiary level, the Minister of Education, Mr Haruna Iddrisu said he agreed that there was a problem and a growing indiscipline on senior high schools’ campuses.

The Education Minister’s response followed a concern raised by the Member of Parliament from Kwadaso, Professor Kingsley Nyarko, who had asked about the interventions the ministry had implemented or considering to implement to promote discipline in educational institutions, especially those at the pre-tertiary level.“You will be alarmed that in some secondary schools, a student will have the courage to go and sell wee (Indian hemp), marijuana or cannabis on the school campus and this should merit outright dismissal because if this does not happen, he will poison the rest of the students who are completely innocent,” the minister said.