Parent to sue WAEC over cancelled BECE papers

A parent of one of the candidates writing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has threatened to drag the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to court for the cancellation of some papers.

The parent, Owusu Tawiah Johnson who resides in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region said his son did not benefit from the said leaked exam papers and is therefore demanding an explanation from WAEC within 24 hours or else he will head to the court.

Five papers have been cancelled by WAEC in the ongoing BECE following a leakage of the questions.

The subjects are English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Science 2, and Mathematics 2 and Social Studies 2.

The Social Studies paper scheduled to be written on Thursday will not take place.

The Examination Council explained that it cancelled the papers to protect the integrity of the examination after questions from the cancelled papers had gone viral on social media after it was leaked by some unknown persons.

The cancelled papers will however be written on June, 29 and 30, 2015.

In an interview on Eyewitness News, Mr. Johnson said his son is distraught and so he is unsure if he will be in the right frame of mind to write the remaining papers.

“I don’t understand why they should do that and I want to ask WAEC; have they thought of the psychological problems that will come on the children? As it is now, I don’t even know whether my ward can write the examination which is yet to come because he is really down,” he disclosed.

He said it is important for him to sue WAEC because they must be forced to take full responsibility for the leakage.

“I have to go to court because if you say there was an examination leakage, who caused that? It is your fault which means that somebody at WAEC must be blamed and not the candidate.”

An angry Mr. Johnson added that, “in Ghana, the candidates are always blamed. Why? Anytime there is a problem, it is the candidate that suffers…if WAEC doesn’t come out and give us a very vivid explanation as to what they are doing, in 24 hours, I will go to the court and then show them.”

Source: Efua Idan Osam/ citifmonline.com