The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said the amount the Government of Ghana has given it will not be able to settle all its debtors ahead of the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The examination body said the difficulty in settling its debts is because of the Government’s inability to pay its oputstanding debts owed WAEC.
The development comes after the Finance Ministry released over 47 million cedis to defray part of about 90 million cedis owed to the Council last Friday.
Spokesperson for WAEC, John Kapi, said the amount released on Friday will be used to tackle the salient items on its scale of preference ahead of the BECE.
“Currently, we have been able to print some answer booklets to the tune of about 12.6million cedis. We have been able to buy pencils to the tune of 1.146million and we have also bought bond paper for printing that cost about 48million Ghana cedis,” Kapi told Joy News on Monday.
“So if we talk about our scale of preference, then what we are saying is that we will not be able to pay our debtors, however, we will be able to conduct the examination as we are supposed to do”.
The revelation comes days after the West African Examinations Council clarified that it only received some GH¢47.125 million from the government contrary to the GH¢80 million announced in Parliament by the Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh.
Mr Annoh-Dompreh, who is also the Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, told the House that the Ministry of Finance had released the amount to the council on Friday [June 21, 2024].
Mr Kapi said it was rather GH¢47.125 million that was received on Friday which was processed through the Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMIS) and was yet to be translated into real cash.
Source: Myxyzonline.com
