Civil society group, Africa Education Watch has dragged the West African Examination Council to court over alleged leakage of contact details of its 1,520 examiners billed to mark this year’s West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
According to the CSO it is against international standards to use examiners whose identity and contact details have been publicly disclosed to mark exams.
A statement announcing the decision of the group to sue WAEC signed by its Executive Director, Kofi Asare, says the writ was filed to ensure the integrity of the examination is safeguarded. Read below the statement:
Dear Partners,
As you may have noted, on 17th August 2020, we reported WAEC’s leakage of the contact details of WASSCE examiners on social media; an incident WAEC later confirmed.
However, instead of changing these 1,520 examiners and replacing them with its (WAEC) acclaimed over 20,000 examiners, they went ahead yesterday 28th September 2020 to commence pre-marking formalities with these same examiners whose contacts have been leaked.
We believe It is against International Standards (including WAEC’s) to use examiners whose identity and contact details have been publicly disclosed, as markers in an international examination. This is likely to affect the integrity of Ghana’s pre-tertiary assessment system and the credibility of the WASSCE 2020 Certificate.
We have therefore sued WAEC and further filed an injunction application on notice at an Accra High Court to compel WAEC not to use those examiners in marking. The return date for the hearing is next week Thursday, 8th October, 2020.
Please find forwarded the Writ and other relevant documentation.
Kofi Asare
Executive Director
Africa Education Watch
