WAEC to ‘appeal’ Court ruling on withheld WASSCE results release

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced plans to appeal a stay of execution on a court ruling that ordered the release of withheld West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results.

WAEC decision comes after the Accra High Court dismissed its application seeking to delay the release of withheld West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) School results of some students who sat for the examination last year.

WAEC had withheld the results of approximately 10,000 WASSCE candidates across multiple subjects, citing alleged examination malpractices and irregularities in its December 30, 2024, announcement.

Speaking in an interview monitored by Pretertiary.com, 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 Citi News.

The not-for-profit organization’s Head of Legal Affairs further noted that the results set to be released on February 28 will still include candidates who failed to appear before WAEC for questioning over their withheld results.

A total number of 460,611 candidates made up of 212,954 males and 247,657 females from 1003 second cycle schools across the country sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School.