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Some eight foreign candidates who are expected to sit for the Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE) 2020 at a center in Ketu South Municipality are stranded in their home country.
A total of 119 students from other West African countries signed up with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to write this year’s BECE in Ghana.
But the controls revealed that the candidates, two boys and six girls, were unable to appear at Saint Paul’s ‘C’, the center dedicated to foreign candidates on the first and second days of the current BECE.
Charles Elikplim Dorkenoo, the municipal public relations officer for the Ketu South Education Office, said the candidates traveled to Nigeria and were caught by the border closure directive due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ghana closed its air, land and sea borders to human trafficking since March this year to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Although air borders were opened on September 1, land and sea remain closed.
Meanwhile, 56 candidates were absent on the first day of the exam while 55 did not write the papers on the second day in the Municipality.
They include 17 boys and 39 girls on the first day and 17 boys and 38 girls on the second day.
The Municipal Directorate of Education cited the death of three candidates, illness, pregnancy and the closure of the border as the reasons why the candidates did not participate in the exam.
The Municipality of South Ketu submitted 4,225 candidates from public and private basic schools and from other West African countries for this year’s BECE.
