[ 2012-05-08 ]

WASSCE candidates threaten invigilator
The timely arrival of reinforcement from the Upper
West Regional Police Monday averted what could
have been disastrous when final-year students of
the Wa Senior High School allegedly took the law
into their own hands and threatened the life of a
female invigilator.

Wielding offensive weapons, including machetes,
stones and sticks, the students threatened to deal
with Madam Abigail Nketsiah, who they perceived to
be too strict in her role as an invigilator in the
ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE).

Science students of the school were writing the
Physics paper Monday when their mates who had no
paper to write decided to take action against
Madam Nketsiah.

When graphic.com.gh got to the scene, the four
tyres of Madam Nketsiah’s Peugeot car, with
registration number GR 3155 1, had all been
deflated and removed.

A policeman who wants to remain anonymous told
graphic.com.gh that most of the candidates who
were writing the Physics paper had entered the
examination hall at a time the examination had
started. A search on them later revealed that they
were carrying foreign materials which were
seized.

The policeman said because a similar incident had
occurred in the course of writing one of the
papers invigilated by Madam Nketsiah, the
final-year students had planned to attack her
whenever she invigilated another examination.

They, consequently, organised themselves, took
dangerous weapons and threatened the lives of the
invigilators, especially Madam Nketsiah.

The students threatened to lynch her should she
come out of the examination hall and, for fear of
being lynched, Madam Nketsiah called the police
for help.

When the police arrived, the students who were
wielding the offensive weapons ran away.

But, unknown to Madam Nketsiah, the tyres of her
car had ben deflated and removed.

When the police realised the explosive nature of
the situation, they called for reinforcement.

Source - Daily Graphic

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