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The Proprietor of Prince of Peace Academy, a Private Junior High School (JHS) in Tamale, has been charged with defrauding by false pretence.

Sulemana Saeed, the proprietor of the school,has been charged with the offence for allegedly failing to register 75 students of the school for this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), after collecting   monies from them for that purpose. He is to be put before court today.

The suspect was charged with the offence after police investigations, according to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mr Mohammed Yussif Tanko.

It was revealed that the proprietor, took monies more than the approved Ghana Education service (GES) fee ranging between GHC 500-600 from the students but still failed to register them for the exam. 

Mr. Sulemana Saeed was arrested by the police at the Northern School of Business (NOBISCO) examination centre in Tamale last Monday after about 75 students of the school were left stranded and frustrated at the examination centre after they could not find their index numbers. Later checks revealed that their proprietor had not register them for the exam.

Seventy-six out of 151 students were registered by Mr. Saeed to write the examination though Police Investigations revealed the school had only four active students.