Some aggrieved parents and guardians have threatened a legal action against the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) for withholding some results of the 2024 edition of the West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The more than 1,000 parents and guardians gave the examination body a 72-hour ultimatum to release the withheld results for their children and wards to know their performances in the examination and subsequently prepare for their tertiary education or otherwise.
Mostly drawn from Yeji and Atebubu in the Bono East, Nkrankwanta and Berekum in Bono, and Goaso in Ahafo as well as Tepa in the Ashanti regions, the visibly angry parents and their affected children and wards had earlier besieged the premises of the WAEC office in Sunyani.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) learnt that the Council invited them to answer some questions in connection with the cancellation and withholding of some of the results of the students who wrote the WASSCE last year.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Powerful Agyei Yeboah, the spokesperson for the aggrieved parents also called for the intervention of the Ministry of Education.
Describing the situation as a threat to national security, he said if nothing was done for the release of the results that could truncate the education of some of the graduates.
Another concerned parent, Mr Joseph Mensah said their children were innocent of any alleged examination malpractices, questioning how the candidates could cheat when the WAEC invigilators and officials supervised the examinations.
“All the core subjects of my child have been withheld and we don’t know what to do now”, Mr Kofi Appiaggyei, one of the parents stated.
For Madam Madeline Asiedu Amankona Diawuo, another parent, she was shocked when she heard about the withholding of the results, and called for government intervention.
When contacted, Madam Gloria Bayor, the Outgoing Sunyani Branch Controller for WAEC, told the GNA that the malpractices were detected during the marking of the papers.
She explained that WAEC needed to invite and prove with evidence to them why their wards results were either withheld or cancelled.
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