Seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt says President Nana Akufo-Addo's description of the final year Senior High School (SHS) students as "Akufo-Addo graduates" is an ''unnecessary political comment''.
According to him, it was needless for the President to have made such comment in one of his updates on COVID-19.
The President, delivering a speech on the reopening of schools, was elated that the first batch of beneficiaries of his free SHS programme aimed at giving free education to secondary students were about to complete their West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Over 300,000 students who benefited from the policy have begun their final exams and will complete in September this year.
During the President's speech, he referred to the students as ''Akufo-Addo graduates''.
The students were recently heard insulting the President while others vowed to vote against him in the upcoming general elections because they couldn't write their Integrated Science paper.
They blame the President for providing them with past questions that to their disappointment, failed to be what was initially the exams they had anticipated.
Following their behaviour, the Ghana Education Service has sanctioned all the students but Kwesi Pratt believes the students who pleged to vote out the Akufo-Addo government have committed no offence.
Reacting to the issue on Peace FM's flagship programme 'Kokrokoo', Mr. Pratt insisted that the students need not be punished but rather it is the President who should be blamed for introducing politics into the schools.
He stated emphatically that the President policized the education system when he called the students his graduates.
"Some lighthearted comments introduces politics into certain arenas. This is one of those lighthearted comments, it politicizes the examination and so on. So, I wasn't happy with that. I've heard some people argue that that is why the children were misbehaving. I don't agree with those people either that that is why the students behaved in the manner they did . . . But it was a comment which was totally unnecessary," he asserted.
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