The Ministry of Education on Friday sent a message of best wishes to the Junior Secondary School students who would be re-writing some of their papers.

A statement in Accra signed by Professor Ameyaw-Akumfi, Minister of Education said, "As you write your papers, we wish to assure you that you are in our thoughts and prayers. May God/Allah's guidance and wisdom be with you - success will surely crown your efforts".

It reminded them that Ghana's future depended them and said the Ministry regretted that they had to go through the trauma because of the selfishness of a few. The decision to call for a re-sit was painful but necessary, it said adding that measures had been taken to forestall future recurrence.

The Minister said, "We know what you have been through these past few weeks, the anxiety of waiting, the heart-ache, the tears that you have shed. You have been through the most traumatic way to vicissitudes that the world at times inflicts on the innocent as well as the guilty".

He said how they faced the experience would determine their future and asked them to remember the expression "when the going gets toughs, the tough gets going. This is how we know you have faced the challenge of this re-sit".