Former General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC) and women’s empowerment advocate, Janet Nabla, is calling for the swift removal of the officials running Ghana’s Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), accusing them of turning a routine process into a nightmare for parents and prospective SHS students.
According to Nabla, the head of the placement system and his deputies should have been shown the door long before now, given how difficult the process has become for ordinary families.
Speaking on Adom FM on Friday, September 11, 2026, she voiced sharp frustration with the obstacles confronting parents and students during the current SHS placement exercise, insisting the strain being placed on already-pressured families is unacceptable.
Nabla was unequivocal that those directly overseeing the placement system must answer for its failures. In her view, the dysfunction has reached a point where the officials in charge — deputies included — simply shouldn’t still be in their seats. Her remarks came during a heated on-air exchange that pulled in perspectives from both government and opposition voices on what’s driving the breakdown.
An NPP communicator on the programme offered a competing theory, pointing to changes made after the NDC took office. According to her, both the software powering the placement system and the personnel who ran it under the previous NPP administration were swapped out by the incoming NDC government — and that overhaul, she suggested, may be at the root of the current confusion.
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Nabla didn’t dismiss the claim outright. If true, she said, it would only confirm a criticism she’s voiced for years — that Ghana’s two dominant political parties tend to make changes that end up hurting ordinary citizens rather than improving the services they depend on all the time.
For her, the ongoing placement chaos is just the latest example of NDC and NPP administrations alike failing to prioritise the people they’re meant to serve. She expressed dismay that parents and students are being forced to endure needless stress over a system that, in her words, should function efficiently, transparently, and without drama.
The exchange laid bare the familiar political fault lines between the NDC and NPP over who bears responsibility for public institutions. But Nabla pushed back against reducing the issue to a partisan blame game, arguing that the real question isn’t which party built or altered the system — it’s whether the system actually works for Ghanaians.
The controversy lands at a tense moment, with parents and students closely tracking the SHS placement process and many families still scrambling for clarity on school selection and placement outcomes.