Only Ghanaian candidates are left to write the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022.
This is because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia — have returned to the May/June calendar and had administered the WASSCE for their school candidates from May 9 to June 24, this year.
The four countries have had their academic calendars streamlined to enable them to write the examination in May/June, as Ghana sticks to the ‘new normal’ calendar occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Notwithstanding the late sitting, Ghanaian candidates will still compete for the National Distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award with candidates from those countries.
“Our candidates will still compete for the National Distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award, which is normally competed for by all candidates in the five-member countries,” the Head of the Ghana National Office of WAEC, Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, said.
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The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has revealed why some Ghanaians are yet to receive their Ghana cards despite them being printed.
According to him, there are many reasons why some people are yet to receive their cards. One of them, he adds, includes double registration, which is a criminal offence.
Other reasons he says include a change of vital data in the custody of the authorities, such as bio-data, among others.
He said until these issues are rectified, individuals will not receive their cards.
“There are people who have double-registered. That is potentially a criminal offence. Those are being individually investigated. There are those whose cards have gone into adjudication, not because of double registration but because they have sought to change their vital data in the custody of the authority, such as bio-data. For such people, the system arrests their application, and it joins a queue.
“For such people, until the outstanding issues are rectified, they can’t receive their cards,” citinewroom.com quoted Prof. Attafuah
Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah also revealed that about 15.7 million Ghanaians have currently received their Ghana cards.
According to Prof. Attafuah, per the available data, 16,969,034 people have registered for the Ghana Card, but about 16,535,623 cards have been printed as of today.
He said that about 15,702,719 cards have been issued, whereas some 808,493 cards have been printed but not issued.
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