Alhaji Issahaku Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, has on Monday visited some exam centers in the Wa Municipality to ensure that everything required to enhance the smooth takeoff of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) were in place.
At the time Alhaji Salia arrived at the Wa Senior High School, all the four centers there had already started with the English language Paper One.
Mr Bapuah John, the Supervisor for Wa SHS exam center 'C', said there were a total of 178 candidates made up of 112 boys and 66 girls
with all of them present.
Alhaji Salia after going round to see how the students were taking the exams took time to address some of the teachers that brought their students to write the exams.
He commended them for the seriousness they attached to the welfare of their students and said their presence would help to boost their moral for them to perform well.
He assured them that the Government was doing its best to improve on their condition of services to make life more comfortable for them to give-off their best to improve on educational standards.
Abdul Hamid Seese, one of the teachers, thanked the Minister for his concern and said his visit was a demonstration of the passion that
he had for education and a motivation for the teachers.
At the Wa School for the Death, Mr Adams Bayuo, the Supervisor at the centre, mentioned Dan-Ibu International School, Wa Numa International School, Wa Municipal Model School and pupils from the host school, were writing the examination at that center.
He said three of the candidates were absent, but could not give reasons for their inability to write the examination.
He reiterated government’s commitment to resource the Ghana Education Service to carry out its mandate to improve on standards of education in country.