WAEC sued over leakage of WASSCE examiners details

A Civil Society Organisation, Africa Education Watch, has sued the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) over the circulation of a list of contact details of examiners for the 2020 WASSCE on social media.

The plaintiff, in a suit filed at the Accra High Court on Tuesday, September 29, said the “careless” conduct of WAEC could compromise the just ended 2020 WASSCE results.

In its statement of claim, the plaintiff argued that although WAEC had apologised and assured the public that the leaked list was not the final markers list, an SMS making the rounds suggest that the names on the leaked document had been invited to attend a coordination and conference marking of the 2020 WASSCE scripts.

This, according to the plaintiff, was an indictment on WAEC and raised credibility and integrity issues about the marking standards of the 2020 WASSCE.

The plaintiff is therefore praying the court to among other things order WAEC to set aside every purported list, meeting or appointments meant to mark and grade the results of all WAEC examinations until new appointments are made to exclude every name on the leaked documents making rounds in the social media.

It also wants the court to restrain WAEC, their agents and assigns from purporting to act in any manner that contravenes the laid down rules, regulations and general principles regarding the conduct of external examinations in Ghana.

Below is the writ of summons and statement of claim