[b]Gideon was a trained teacher from
College who had just written his final
exams
and was awaiting his results before he
would be confirmed.
He was asked by his superiors to go
change his SSNIT to biometric.
He had done that some few weeks after
his letter came with his station posted on
it.
Gideon was lucky that he had gotten the
district where he had chosen.
Most of his colleagues had not been post
to the districts they had chosen to teach.
Some of his friends were posted at the
North where
they grumbled because they never liked
that place.
Gideon was posted to his hometown
Akropong where he seek his sponsorship.
His dad had asked him to stay home
before he went to a
place of his choice after four years when he
could seek for a transfer.
[7/13, 3:58 AM] Evanz: Gideon had
already done his Out programme
teaching in the
township of Adjikpo,a suburb of Somanya
in the Eastern part of Ghana.
His Out-segment was for eight months
after which he wrote his final five papers.
Little did he thought of teaching as a
profession after he completed Senior High.
To him,he preferred being a male nurse to
teaching.
Neither of the two professions was his
choice of work he thought
of doing before completing Senior High but
due to the unemployment
rate of University graduates sitting in
their houses with no hope of jobs,he had
no option than to defray his mind from
becoming a Journalist he had always
dreamt of to either choose Nursing or
teaching,an ultimatum given him by his
father.
But for his dad,Gideon would have chosen
Nursing over Teaching.
Even though both of these job
requirements provided theirs
graduates with ready jobs unlike the
Universities where a graduate
would have to be writing series of letters
for an
interview to business institutions and
centres.
His dad had chosen for him a training
College and had paid a ransom of Five
Hundred Ghana Cedis to a
man whose brother was a principal to a
College.
His Dad did this to actually guarantee
him of stepping into the College
because Gideon had an average mark of
D7 in his Maths paper.
Bribes being the other of the day for
higher educational
institutions were not mostly caused by
Principals or Chancellors of these
institutions but
parents who did not want their wards to
sit years in their homes writing Nov-Dec
papers because they
themselves saw it as a waist of time and
money.
So they preferred paying something to the
principals to
secure a place for their wards in these
higher institutions.[/b]
Watch out for Episode 2
