EIGHT KSI PRISONERS ALSO WRITE 2015 BECE

This year's Basic Education Certificate Examination began at all designated Centres across the country today, Monday June 15, 2015 with more than 438 thousand final year student of both public and private Junior High Schools taking part in their major external examination in their entire educational lives.

In the Ashanti region, a total of 87 thousand, 815 candidate were expected to sit for the BECE at a number of designated WAEC-approved Centres across the region. 

However, our Correspondent,  who visited some of the Centres, reports that some of the candidates could not turn up for today’s two Papers which are English Language and Religious and Moral Education.

 At the T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School in Kumasi where four different Centres have been created, four candidate at Centre ‘B’ were absent for the first Papers. 

The four were made up of three boys from the Asem M/A JHS with one girl from the A.M.E. Zion JHS. 

According to the Supervisor of the Centre, Richard Abudu Iddrisu,  one of those boys is said to have stopped school after the registration, one has travelled while no reason has been given for the other boy. 

The absentee girl from the A.M.E. Zion JHS also stopped school before the exam would start. 

In all, 192 candidates from three schools are writing the exam in that Centre. 

There was no absentee in the other three Centres at the T.I. AMASS with security in place while no challenge regarding the conduct of the exam had also been recorded at the time of the visit.

 At the Anglican SHS, also in Kumasi, six Centres have been created to adequately cater for the conduct of the exam.

 At the time of the visit which coincided with the actual start of the first Paper, all the candidates had reported for the exam with all the Invigilators and Supervisors at post. 

The only issue that ran through the Centres was the late tart of the first Paper, English Language 2. 

This, according to a Supervisor from the Metro Directorate of Education, P. K. Twum, was a problem caused by the late of the exam materials by the West African Examinations Council. 

Meanwhile, the candidates in the Ashanti region includes eight inmate of the Kumasi Central and Female Prisons who are writing the exam at the Armed Forces Secondary/Technical School.  They are made up of four males and females each. 

According to the Assistant  Superintendent of Prisons in charge of Public Relations, Richard Bukari who made this known to Ashanti Today that one of the females could not show up for the exam for no obvious reason. 

ASP Bukari explained that the female concerned was released from the Prisons before the start of the BECE for which reason the Prison officials cannot tell why she was absent for the first Paper.