It has now emerged that the Christ the King International School in Kumasi whose proprietor and head teacher have been arrested by the police failing to register 106 students for the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), is not accredited for the examination.

The school took registration fees from the affected students ostensibly to register them for the examination, which took off on Monday with two papers – English Language and Religious and Moral Education – and issued them index numbers which turned out to be fake.

The students and their parents, last Friday launched a passionate appeal to education authorities to be allowed to write the papers, but the West African Examinations Council said they had not been registered for the examination.

On Monday, the Education Minister, Alex Tettey Enyo instructed that the students be allowed to write the examination so their registration difficulties are sorted thereafter. The Minister intervention followed an appeal by Youth and Sports Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak on Joy FM.

However, the regional educational directorate says the school was not accredited in the first place, to present students for the examination and so the students cannot be helped out of their fix.

Some of the students are said to have been expelled from various schools for disciplinary sanctions, while others were said to have swindled their original schools of school fees and registered for the exams at the Christ the King International School because they thought they could get away with it.

The Police are processing the proprietor, one Mr. Adu Gyamfi and Mr. Agyenim Boateng, head teacher for court on a provisional charge of stealing.

A good 395,582 candidates from 9,502 Junior High Schools are writing the BECE.

Story by Isaac Yeboah/Myjoyonline.com