The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has refuted allegations of conflict of interest within its governing council as well as misconduct in the movement and distribution of exam papers among other claims by the Africa Education Watch.
The Think Tank on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, released a report on its assessment of the 2020 West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The report alleged a number of irregularities witnessed during the period of the examination, which it termed unprecedented. But WAEC said the Think Tank’s report is fraught with factual inaccuracies.
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Head of public relations at WAEC, Agnes Teye Cudjoe in an interview with journalists refuted the allegations describing it as erroneous.
“There was a wrong perception put out there regarding the movement of our examination papers. the report said the papers are moved the night before the examination or at dawn. which is false because we do not do that. The fact that we have the Director -General of the Ghana Education Service as a member of the WAEC council does not create a conflict of interest situation whereby things will just be done haphazardly” she defended.
She further hinted that many of the suggestions by the Africa Education Watch were processes that were already in place with its examination protocol.
The Executive Director of the Education Think Tank, Kofi Asare said the report should rather give an opportunity for WAEC to amend its flaws for the general good of the educational sector rather than being defensive.
But in the meantime the head of the Legal Department at WAEC, Rev. Victor Brew has hinted of a possible legal action against Education Think Tank, Africa Education Watch over its misleading report.
Source: ATLFMNEWS
