Release 2024 WASSCE withheld results: High Court to WAEC
The High Court has ordered the West African Examination Council to release the withheld results of candidates who sat the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in 2024.
On Thursday, January 30, four students representing ten thousand five hundred and twenty whose results were withheld filed an application seeking the court to order WAEC to release their results. Lawyer for the applicants, Martin Kpebu, argued that the action of WAEC abused the rights of the students since WAEC failed to vividly indicate the reason for withholding the results.
He noted that by refusing to release the results, many students have been deprived the opportunity to go to school this year since a number of tertiary institutions have closed their admission portals.Students with better grades could have gotten admission if not for the withheld papers.
This investigation is an administrative process that is ongoing and takes a period of time due to the large number of students involved. Ruling on the matter, Justice Ali Baba Abature highlighted that WAEC failed to indicate what offenses the students committed leading to the withholding of their results, which they have done so.
He therefore granted the application and ordered the examination body to release the results with immediate effect.
In addition, WAEC has encouraged parents and guardians to cooperate with the Council as they continue to investigate students whose results have been withheld due to examination malpractices.
In a statement dated January 30 and signed by Head of Public Affairs, John Kapi, the Council noted that it was at the concluding stage of the investigations, which required the students to submit written statements in response to the charges of malpractices levelled against them.
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It noted that the students were being given a fair hearing and dismissed reports of coercion of the students to write the statements.
The court protested that WAEC failed to state the alleged malpractices committed by student who took part in the 2024 WASSCE.
With the present orders of the court, WAEC will be expected to release the results of these students.