Nine people have been arrested over examination malpractices in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The individuals were arrested in various locations, including Bekwai in the Ashanti Region and Tema in the Greater Accra Region.
Seven of them are teachers, RainbowRadioOnline.com has gathered.
Head of Public Affairs at the West African Examination Council (WAEC), John Kapi, confirmed the arrest in a kedan interview.
According to him, the council is working with relevant stakeholders to tighten security measures.
He said the seven teachers will be reported to the Ghana Education Service for disciplinary action to ve taken against them.
“We also arrested one person at Nkoranza Senior High School. One person at Chemu Senior High School, Tema. And then two also in the Bono region. Also, there were two others, I will call them outsiders. They were not related to the examination but were trying to have access to the candidates. Seven teachers and two outsiders.”
“So we have deployed a few more monitors to those flashpoints and we have also appealed to our partners in the security agencies to ensure that their presence is also felt in those areas to ensure that the people, you know, do not, continue with this kind of practice
“Well, when we pick up teachers like this, we hand their names over to the Director General of the Ghana Education Service because they are not actually our employees. So the director general would be in a position to, instruct the teachers council to take disciplinary action against them.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
