The premises of the Bono Regional Office of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) in Sunyani witnessed chaotic scenes, as hundreds aggrieved parents and guardians besieged there on Wednesday

It was however tough for the police to maintain law and order as the personnel of the service could not control the crowd of the visibly angry parents and guardians, being accompanied by their children and wards:

Sompa FM gathered that the examination body invited the parents and their children through text messages to answer questions over the cancellation of some subjects in the 2024 edition of the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)

Checks reveal that WAEC cancelled the results of 4,591 candidates who sat for the 2024 WASSCE.

Further checks showed that among the affected candidates, 4,108 had their subject results cancelled for bringing unauthorised materials into the exam hall, while 483 lost their entire results for using mobile phones during the exams.

Additionally, the council withheld the results of 990 candidates, 781 for specific subjects and 209 for their entire results pending further investigations. However, during a visit to the WAEC premises around 1030hours, some of the parents and guardians told Sompa FM that their children and wards could not be blamed for the alleged malpractices that characterised the examination.

 Mrs Gloria Bayor, the Bono Regional Out-going Branch Controller of WAEC told the media the council invited parents and their children from 24 schools. being the first batch of the affected graduates. "We have to provide opportunities for the graduates to know why we have to cancel or withheld their results so we have to show them the evidence that this is what was detected during the marking of their papers",she explained

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