News: WAEC Posts Irrelevant Advertorial On Buhari's Certificate In Guardian Newspaper Saying They Don't Have Buhari's Certificate

WAEC Ghana Office Clarifies its position on Buhari's
Certificate saga in an advertorial in page 92 of today's
Guardian Newspaper {10-02-15}.
The Ghana National Office of WAEC released a press
statement of the Certificate of General Buhari who is
contesting at the Nigerian Presidential Election scheduled to
hold on the 28th of March 2015.
A Civil Society organisation, MoveOn Nigeria had earlier
written a letter to the Ghana regional office of WAEC. A
response had been provided indicating that they did not
have Buhari's records. MoveOn Nigeria had then gone
ahead to claim that WAEC had denied the existence of
Buhari's records.
The WAEC's Statement below refutes that claim and
provides more Clarity
The attention of the Ghana National Office of the West
African Examinations Council (WAEC) has been drawn
to a publication which appeared on the front page of
The Union newspaper edition of Thursday, January
29th 2015 under the above-stated
caption, and the interpretations given to it in the press
and social media. Displayed in the publication where
copies of the correspondence between WAEC Ghana
and Moveon Nigeria, a civil society organisation based
in Nigeria, concerning the
examination records of one "mohamed or
Muhammadu Buhari" who we were informed was a
candidate at Provincial secondary school, Katsina in
the examination conducted by WAEC in 1961.


In View of the discussions generated by the publishing
of our simple routing response to Moveon Nigeria, we
feel constrained to provide clarification on the matter
for the benefit of stakeholders and the general public
in Nigeria. Though our response
that the certified true copy of the examination records
of Mohamed Buhari could not be provided from the
Ghana National Office was correct, it was not intended
to indicate the existence or otherwise of the
candidate's examination records, or to foreclose
further search
by the enquirer at a more appropriate location within
the council.
WAEC is a Sub-regional organisation estabilshed in
1952 with a tripartite mandate to identify the
examinations required in the public interest in the
English speaking west African countries, to conduct
the examinations and to award
certificates of international standard to deserving
candidates. Currently, there are five member
countries of WAEC- The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia,
Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The Headquarters is in
Ghana, but in each member country, including Ghana,
the council has
established a Nationa Office that takes charge of its
assets and operations in that particular country.
Consequently, the Council's information storage and
retrieval system is highly decentralised, as records of
candidates who sat the council's examination in a
particular
country are kept int he country's natinal office. A
candidate's results may be confirmed or verified to
any institution or body if WAEC is so requested in an
application by the candidate, an institution or body.
In the case of Mohamed Buhari therefore, it was
impossible for the Ghana National Office to make
available certified true copy of his examination
records, since his school or examination centre
(provincial Secondary School, Katsina)
falls within the jurisdiction of the Nigeria National
Office.
Following from the above, the Nigerian National Office
is the appropriate National Office of WAEC to confirm
of verify the examination records of Mohamed Buhari
who is reported by MoveOn Nigeria to have sat WAEC
examination at provincial Secondary School, Katsina
in 1961
Agnes Teye- Cudjoe (Mrs.)
Head Public Affiars
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