Management of Bright Senior High School, a private institution in the Eastern region, Akyem Kukurantumi to be precise has rubbished claims of instigating students to assault WAEC Officials and journalists, which according to them none of their management members or staff was around when the incident occurred.
According to the management, and the teachers never instructed the students to stop writing the paper and leave the school premises as it was been reported.
On Thursday, 6th August 2020, students of Bright Senior High School attacked officials of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) supervising the on-going WASSCE examination in their schools after they clashed with the officials over social distancing in the examination hall, insisting the invigilators were too strict on them.
The management in a press statement on Friday, August 7, 2020, has averred that the principal and teachers didn’t instigate the students to assault the WAEC officials as is being reported.
According to the statement “the private security men from Spotlight Security Solutions posted at the entrance of the school by the WAEC officials prevented the principal from entering the school when they heard the noise, hence they didn’t get the chance to stop the students or to instigate them as being reported by some media houses.
“Though some of our teachers had been scheduled to partake in the invigilation of exams, they were substituted with external invigilators that morning without any prior communication and they all left for their various homes”.
“As has been done every year, the principal was on the school premises to ensure that students, WAEC officials, and security personnel were conducting their activities without any challenges”.
“For the avoidance of doubt, none of the teachers of Bright Senior High School was allowed to partake in the invigilation of the Social Studies examination on 6th August 2020”.
Watch video below where the director of the school was stop the entrance:
Source: Evans Boateng/Mybrytfmonline
