WAEC forces thousands of students to admit cheating in 2023 WASSCE, angry parents express frustration
Some angry parents have expressed their frustrations after their children were compelled by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to admit cheating in the 2023 West Africa Senior SchoolCertificate Examination (WASSCE).
The parents who thronged the premises of Otec FM in Kumasi on Friday, March 1, 2024, could not fathom why the children who are minors should be allowed to write statements without their supervision.
According to them no amount of opposition could persuade the authorities of the Ashanti Regional branch of WAEC to yield, with a threat from WAEC that refusal to write statement will lead to a life ban from the examination body.
The parents did not also come to terms why the students who have passed in those subjects should be made to face the consequences when writing the exams under strict invigilation and supervision by the WAEC.
If there were any suspected malpractices during the exams, the invigilators and the supervisors should be held responsible for negligence of duty, but not the innocent children, the parents added.
The students were among the over 2,000 students whose results are been held by WAEC for investigation due suspected malpractices during the 2023 WASSCE.
They have been invited to WAEC offices to answer questions about alleged irregularities detected during the examination, and their results may be cancelled or release based on the outcome of the investigation.
“Our children have been forced to admit engaging in examination malpractices during the 2023 BECE, a situation we deemed it illegal, considering their ages,” an angry parent told Otec News reporter Bismark Appiah Kubi.
“There were invigilators and other security officers during the exams, if there had been any sort of malpractices, they should have been apprehended..the invigilators should be questioned not the innocent students, another parent said.
The angry and frustrated parents appealed to the Education Minster Hon Osei Yaw Adutwum to intervene to save the childrens future.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Francis Appiah
