Boafo visits BECE centres in Kumasi

Kumasi, April 24, GNA - Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, the Ashanti Regional Minister, on Monday visited some of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE centres in the Kumasi metropolis.

Some of the centres he and some officials from the Ghana Education Service (GES) visited were Opoku Ware Secondary School, Kumasi Secondary/Technical School (KSTS), Prempeh College and State Boys' Metropolitan JSS.

Mrs Belinda Addo, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Madam Patricia Appiagyei, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive and Mr Twumasi Amponsah, the Metropolitan Director of Education accompanied Mr Boafo. At Opoku Ware School, Mr Frimpong Dwamena, the Supervisor of the centre said there were four centres in the school with 1,090 candidates from 16 cluster schools in the area. He said all the candidates were present for the examination that will end on Friday.

At KSTS at Patase the Supervisor, Mr Osei Afriyie, said they expected 925 candidates but had recorded nine absentees when the examination took off. At the Prempeh College where four centres had been created, Mr Emmanuel Yeboah, the Supervisor for centre 'D', said the centre had registered five absentees, three boys and two girls out of a total number of 227.

Four hundred and fifty-two candidates were expected to sit for the examination at the State Boys centre 'A' and 'B' but Mr Obiri Yeboah, the Supervisor in-charge of centre 'A', said four candidates did not turn up for the examination. In all, 21,076 candidates from 329 junior secondary schools in the metropolis are taking part in the examination at 81 centres with 743 invigilators.