A former Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Michael Nsowah has dismissed calls from various quarters for the dissolution of the board of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
This came barely a week after the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) called for the dissolution of the WAEC board, after the leakage of questions from five papers in the ongoing BECE.
Michael Nsowah argued that the calls are out of place.
[contextly_sidebar id=”tdZKJ7suZR3vRY63HpZHL9jFi4FkNNsc”]“I don’t think you need to rush into the call for the dissolution of the Board because the Board must exist for WAEC to operate,” he said.
He stressed that WAEC has a timeline and by the end of August the BECE results are to be released so, “any disruption in the administration of WAEC can cause undue delay.”
In an interview with Citi News, he stated that the board could only be dissolved once investigations proved that its members are culpable.
Earlier, NAGRAT had wanted the governing board of the WAEC in Ghana dissolved for a new one to be established.
The teachers had further demanded that the head of WAEC, Rev Nii Nmai Ollennu, be made to step aside while investigations are carried out into the circumstances that led to the leakage and subsequent cancellation of some five papers in the BECE.
NAGRAT has suggsted the creation of alternative examination bodies in order to discontinue the monopoly of WAEC as the sole examining body at the Junior and Senior High Schools.
This, they say will help promote the integrity of examinations and certificates in Ghana because it is very convinced that “WAEC is able to afford these unpardonable in inefficiencies because of the monopoly it enjoys.”
They had added that any WAEC official, teacher or pupil who is found culpable must be dealt with according to the law.
By: Selassie A. Amissah Mensah /citifmonline.com/Ghana