Private Parts Search: GES Discredits Letter Calling It Fake
The Weija Gbawe Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has discredited a letter in circulation directing supervisors and invigilators to conduct a thorough search on candidates of the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) including their private parts.
A part of the letter read “Supervisors and invigilators are authorized to thoroughly search all candidates including including private parts before they are allowed to enter the examination hall. They are also permitted to search head coverings including veils.”
But in a Facebook post, the GES said the letter is “fake” and must be disregarded.
“Disregard the information going round that GES is to search candidates’ private parts.”
It posted the “genuine” letter which reads, “Supervisors and invigilators are authorized to thoroughly search all candidates.”
This was part of eleven rules and regulations issued on July 18 ahead of the Exam scheduled to begin on August 7 and end on August 11.
Except for that directive in question, the rest of the directives remain the same on the “genuine” letter.
Among them, candidates are to wear flat open sandals without socks; candidates are to use transparent blue pens; ban on the use of phones, earpieces, watches and electrical devices in exam hall; and restriction of headmasters, teachers and unauthorized persons from examination centre premises.
