Former Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has described as ‘tragic’ a decision by WAEC on some BECE candidates who were unable to write their first two papers on Monday.
Over 200 BECE candidates from two communities in Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region were unable to sit for the English and Religious and Moral Education papers taken on Monday, due to a change in their examination centres.
According to the West African Examination Council, the candidates “would have to use the February 2018 window for re-sitters”
However, speaking to Sit-in Host of ‘Kokrokoo’, Nana Yaw Kesse, Thursday, the former Deputy Minister who is also the Member of Parliament for North Tongu urged the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service and WAEC to find a different solution because the children are not ‘at fault’.
“It was a tragic one because it was not the fault of the children; 200 is quite a huge number…I will entreat the ministry of education to convene a meeting with WAEC and GES to find an immediate solution to this…if nothing is done their entry into SHS will be delayed for a whole a year. I am sure if they meet, they can find a way out…in the interest of the candidate” he said.
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Thanks very much Honorable Ablakwa for championing the cause of Children. God will guide your steps. JM 2020!
What kind of person are you? Assuming it had happened to your younger brother or sister or even child and someone had suggested what Mr. Ablawa said, would you have insulted him like the way you did? Did Ablwa asked "the exams conducted on their own terms" ? Ablawa said "It was a tragic one because it was not the fault of the children". He also urged the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service and WAEC to find a different solution because the children are not ‘at fault’. We might differ but lets leave out the insults
He Goat. If every hamlet throughout the WAEC zone wanted the exams conducted on their own terms because they are not on speaking terms with their neighbours, how would the exam be conducted across West Africa at the same time? You know what you are saying is pure trash but you must stoop so low to make others look bad. An international examination will NOT bend over backwards for some litigants in some dark hole. Shame on you, ***barred word*** head!