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(LISTEN): If you release the BECE results without paying us, we will sue you – Examiners to WAEC

Some Examiners are threatening to take the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to court if the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is released without paying them.

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced that the results of the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be released on Wednesday, January 25, 2023.

The council in a press statement dated January 19, 2023, said that investigations are ongoing into examination irregularity cases detected during and after the conduct of the examination.

But the releasing of the results could be halted as some examiners who marked the papers are threatening to go to court because they have not been paid after marking the BECE papers.

Speaking on Ahotor Fm’s morning show ‘Adi Kyi Mu Nsem‘ , Mr. Kumi Straw a Chief Examiner said “We’ve been working with WAEC as Examiners since 1999 which we get paid less than a week of marking the papers before the results are released but last year 2022 we finished marking the scripts on 14th December 2022 so we were expecting the money but till now we haven’t received the money”.

Mr. Straw revealed that the amount of marking the exams papers has not been increased for some years.

“We have an amount we recieve per script even that one, for the past years they have never increased it”.

When asked how much they charge per script, he answered “It varies from subject to subject but languages and other subjects are a bit higher, it is not even any money too 2GHC and some are even lower per script”.

The Chief Examiner threatened that they are planning to go to court if WAEC releases the BECE results without paying them.

“Some of the examiners are threatening that if government doesn’t pay WAEC for WAEC to pay us and they go ahead to release the results in the 25th January, they will go to court”.

Mr. Straw said WAEC shouldn’t be blamed but rather the government.

“I have been marking for 24 years, I started in 1999 it hasn’t happened before that we will finish marking and WAEC would not pay us, latest by one week we receives our money, this the only year our payments have been delayed, that’s why I’m saying we shouldn’t blame WAEC but rather the government so we don’t expect WAEC too to release the results when we have not been paid”.

Listen to the interview of Chief Examiner Kumi Straw on Ahotor Fm below: