Court fines WAEC over a delay of withheld WASSCE results release
Accra High Court has also imposed a fine on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) over the delay in the release of withheld WASSCE results of students who sat for the 2024 edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
A Daily Graphic post sighted by Pretertiary.com said the not-for-profit-making organization responsible for the conduct of the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) has been fined GH₵5,000.
The newspaper also disclosed that the Accra High Court has dismissed an application by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) seeking to delay the release of withheld West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) School results.
The fine follows the West African Examinations Council’s decision to further delay the release of the withheld WASSCE for School results to ensure a thorough and fair process to uphold the integrity of the examinations.
Speaking in an interview, a WAEC spokesman, John Kapi said his outfit remains committed to a credible examination process, stressing that the delay is necessary to ensure that only deserving candidates receive their grades.
“We need to sit down and probably bring on board a number of stakeholders to decide on this issue so that we are awarding grades to people who deserve them,” the Head of Public Relations of the Council told Accra-based Citi FM.
In a related development, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it will appeal a stay of execution on a court ruling that ordered the release of withheld West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results.
Speaking to Citi News, WAEC’s Head of Legal Affairs, Rev. Victor Brew, assured that the withheld results would still be released on February 28, except for those directly involved in the ongoing legal proceedings.
“We are going to repeat the stay of execution application at the court of appeal in line with what is established procedure in court matters.
As for 28th [February], it is for the generality of all outstanding results and just to clarify these are just a portion of all the outstanding results. So even as these 10,000 candidates went to court, we are still working and so the 28th is a date to say that all results finally would have been worked on.
Those that are exonerated, they would have their results uncanceled. Those that will be found culpable will have their results cancelled. Perhaps the only group of people will be those students who took us to court, and we have to respect the court procedure,” the WAEC official told the Accra-based radio station.
