Parents petitions gov’t over withheld WASSCE results release delay

Some parents of students who sat for the 2023 West African Senior High School Examination have petitioned the government to intervene quickly for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to release the withheld WASSCE subjects’ results of their wards.

The appeal comes after some parents in the Bono Region say they were left stranded after WAEC invited them and their wards to their premises over the cancellation of some subjects in the 2023 WASSCE for School.

Some parents who spoke to Ghana News Agency said they arrived at the WAEC office as early as 0500 hours when they received the invitation through text messages, however, at 1100 hours no official of the Council had engaged them.

“I think WEAC has not been proactive for some time now and we can’t look on, unconcern for their negligence and incompetence to affect or ruin the future of some of these innocent children”, a parent told the Ghana News Agency.

Mrs Agartha Santio, another concerned parent, told the GNA she travelled from Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West Municipality of the region and arrived at the WEAC premises around 0700 hours, “but where to sit is even a problem”.

“Our girls are now roaming about in town because they don’t know their fate now and so we plead with the government to come to our aid before they become a burden on us”, the mother said in a discussion with GNA.

Some of the candidates whose results had been withheld and cancelled expressed their readiness to re-write the papers and called on the not-for-money-making organization (WAEC) to decide on that as soon as possible.

Others also said they did not engage in any form of malpractice in the examination and therefore, they did not understand why the West African Examinations Council could take action against an entire school to affect everybody.

The management of the West African Examinations Council mid December last year withheld some subject results of candidates from 235 schools over the use of artificial intelligence-generated answers during the 2023 WASSCE.

WAEC in a statement shared with Thisterm.com also said subjects’ results of 3,647 other candidates were cancelled for bringing foreign materials such as prepared notes, textbooks and printed materials into the examination halls.