[ 2011-04-12 ]

19-year SHS finalist misses opportunity to write WASSCE
A 19-year-old final year student of an unnamed
school at Asante Mampong has lost the opportunity
to write this year’s WASSCE after court remanded
him for theft.

Police will not name the suspect, but say he was
arrested for stealing drugs from a chemical shop
where he worked as a messenger, with the intention
of using it to terminate his girlfriend's
pregnancy.

Mampong Divisional Police Commander, ACP Edward
Oduro Kwarteng, told Nhyira News Naa Amerley the
owner had made persistent reports of pilfering at
the shop.

He says the young man was put under police
surveillance until he was arrested.

In a related development, Over 372,826 candidates
from about 10,000 Junior High Schools on Monday
April 11, begin this year's Basic Education
Certificate Examination (BECE) nationwide.

Examination officials have deployed more than
1,000 invigilators for the exams.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly is presenting the
largest number of candidates.

Seventy-six thousand, four hundred and ninety-two
(76,492) candidates are expected to write the
examination in the Ashanti region at 286 canters.

Education Minister, Betty Mould Iddrisu led a team
of educationists on Monday to monitor the exams at
some selected canters in the Accra metropolis.

Adom News toured some exam centers in Tema to find
out the number of candidates sitting for the
exams.

At Twedease which is one of the centres in the
Metropolis, a total number of 237 candidates are
writing the exam with two pregnant girls.

One of the pregnant girls defied the odds and sat
for the exam.

Mr. Frank Anyidoho who is the supervisor for the
centre told Adom News that so far no logistical
constraints have been recorded.

In the Central Region, a total number of 38,610
candidates are sitting for the BECE.

Out of this, 21,062 are boys whiles 17,495 are
girls.

Adom News’ Western Regional correspondent
Okyeame Amoako Darkwah visited the Ghana Secondary
Technical School in the Sekondi Takoradi
Metropolis which is a centre made up of seven
schools.

Source - Adomfm

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