Private Schools take on WAEC over BECE leakage

The Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) has condemned the leakage of examination questions at the just ended Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE) conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday and signed by Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Acting President of GNAPS said; "the whole nation was disappointed by the utter failure of WAEC to eliminate these perennial leakage of examination papers of junior secondary schools".

The statement said that it was a pity that without any investigation into the alleged leakage, which was carried in some part of the media, WAEC and the Ministry of Education denied the leakage after their earlier assurances that adequate security had been put in place to ensure fairness.

The Association said all Ghanaians were surprised to hear the Ministry of Education and WAEC openly denying the earlier reports about the leakage only to come back to admit that evidence had proved the allegations to be true and had hurriedly instituted investigations to find out the culprits.

The leakage, it said, might be nation-wide with some of the papers being sold at market places to some students in certain parts of the country. A large number of concerned parents and guardians are worried about the fate of their children and wards and what would be done to the entire examinations, it stated.