BECE candidates blame WAEC for leakage

Some distraught candidates in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination have blamed the West African Examination Council (WAEC) for the leakage of some of the examination papers.

According to them, they believe there was a breach in the security of the examination organisers, hence the leakage.

WAEC on Wednesday cancelled five papers, including Social Studies, which was to be taken on Thursday following leakage of the papers.

But some of the candidates are angry over the decision and argued that WAEC should have allowed the examination to continue while they investigate the schools and those found culpable, punished.

One of the candidates who spoke to Citi News said “ I think WAEC has a big role to play in this action. It was a bad action and the decision they took, it was not everyone who got the questions so they should have gone through and investigate the schools who got the questions and cancel their papers or penalise them for
that.”

Another candidate alleged, “It was the people guarding the papers that deceived them and took photos of the questions and shared them on social media. Their security was not that tight and the person who took the photograph of the question was from WAEC.”

“They set the question and it must not get out of their offices unless it was time so it’s their fault because the security must be tight. How do you set the paper and allow it to leak?” another candidate asked.

WAEC to be sued

Meanwhile a parent of one of the candidates in the Brong Ahafo region, has threatened t o sue WAEC for the cancellation.

The parent, Johnson Owusu Tawiah argued that reasons for the cancellation were not enough, hence his resolve.

He has thus given WAEC a 24-hour ultimatum to give reasonable explanation or face him in court.

WAEC under investigation

The Ministry of Education has further directed the country’s security agencies to investigate circumstances leading to the leakage and subsequent cancellation of some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) papers.

A Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-tertiary education, Alex Kyeremeh said the news of the cancellation came as a surprise to the Ministry, hence the decision to seek an intervention from the security agencies.

Source: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com