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A group of Junior High School students in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti, affected by the cancellation of five papers in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examinations have demonstrated against the West African Examination Council and called for the heads of its officials.

Apparently irked by the development, the pupils numbering over 100, pleaded with WAEC and government to reverse the cancellation and allow the papers involved to stand.

The students said they could not be blamed for the leakage.

“We did not benefit from the leakage, so why should we be punished for the sins of others?” Joyce Ama Agyemang told graphiconline.

Meanwhile, a number of parents are threatening to take the Council to court for wasting the time of their children and disrupting family programmes.

Speaking on Nhyira FM in Kumasi, the parents said they were consulting their lawyers to sue WAEC.

Some of them alleged they had planned vacation programmes for their children, some to the United Kingdom, saying they will place an injunction on the June 29 and 30 date set by WAEC for re-writing of the canceled.