Communications Director of NPP, Nana Akomea
Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Nana Akomea wants a proper commission of enquiry to be established to delve deeper into the root causes of leakages in the exams conducted by the West African Examination Council over the years.
Critics in the educational sector, after the leakage of three papers in the ongoing WASSCE have expressed misgivings whether WAEC will be able to safeguard the integrity of the exams written in the country considering the rampant leakages which occur on yearly basis.
This comes at a time when WAEC claimed to have advanced a software into the system that will check cheating in exams this year.
But Nana Akomea said it’s time to show concrete leadership in stopping the yearly scandal of exam leakages in the country.
For him, the leaks have become recurrent and rampant in Ghana, which demands that the approach to solving it should be changed.
“WAEC’s resolve in tackling it is obviously not working” he adds.
Contributing to a news analysis programme, News File on Joy FM Saturday, Akomea said: “I will think that a proper commission of enquiry is appointed, and let them go into twenty years ago identifying how all those leakages have occurred so that they will be able to examine the commonalities in them. Its only when we’ve done the identification of all the commonalities in the leakages that we’ll then be able to apply measures that will fit.
“The time has come to take it beyond WAEC and make it a national issue, lets have a proper committee of experts, and look into all the leakages and prescribe solutions. You don’t need out of space technology to make this work. You don’t hear this occurring in other places. Lets assess all these systems and see what will work better for us.However it should be situated within the context of a proper examination body of enquiry.”
