The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has not instituted plans with the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for the state security body to be involved in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in any way, the Public Relations Officer of WAEC, Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, has disclosed.
“We have not contracted the BNI to supervise the distribution of question papers to the examination centres,” she told Prince Minkah on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Monday June 13.
More than 461, 013 candidates from 14,267 public and private Junior High Schools are writing their final exams today – Monday June 13, 2016.
The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will last till June 17.
To forestall the leakage of the exam papers, the Ghana Education Service (GES) said it was employing the services of the (BNI) to ensure there was no leakage as occurred last year when five papers got to some candidates before they were due to have been written.
Director General of the GES Mr Jacob Kor told journalists at a press conference ahead of the papers that: “Right from the time the question papers are carried from the depot, there is going to be BNI personnel accompanying the questions.”
But Mrs Teye-Cudjoe said: “If they [BNI] want to come to the examination centres to find out that everything was going on well, that is fine and they are at liberty to do that but we do not have any arrangement with them,” she emphasised.
Other measures instituted by authorities to address leakages include flying the papers to the examination centres and also banning supervisors and invigilators from going into the centres with mobile phones, respectively.
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