Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, the former Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), has raised concerns over the credibility of the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) result.
According to Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, his daughter obtained Grade 1 in Twi despite her lack of understanding of the subject.
He disclosed that his daughter attended a private school but was not proficient in Twi, making her Grade 1 result in the subject difficult for him to understand.
Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh explained that due to the language barrier the daughter and my mother had disagreements and directed that Twi should be the main language at home.
He added that despite the arrangement, his daughter still did not understand the language well.
Speaking about his daughter’s performance in a viral video on August 11, 2026, Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh stated, “My daughter and my mother had disagreements because of a language barrier, so I directed that Twi would be the main language at home”.
“My daughter was one of the candidates who wrote the 2026 BECE. She doesn’t understand Twi. She got 1 in Twi. The question is, how did my daughter get that grade in Twi?” he quizzed.
“She doesn’t know basic greetings in Twi. If you ask her how we Akans greet in the morning, she will say ‘Maaha’, which means (Good afternoon),” he said.
He added, “I even went there to inquire how she got that grade. They were not happy about my interrogation of her results”.
“Even if she got 7 in Twi, I wouldn’t be surprised,” he said.
Also, Prof Ayeboafoh raises a serious allegation of long-standing result discrepancies that suggest private schools have been cheating public schools.
Meanwhile, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Head of Public Affairs, John Kapi, has rejected suggestions that candidates from private schools may have been disadvantaged in the marking of the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
According to WAEC, examiners do not know the origin of the scripts they assess.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, John Kapi explained, “We examine all of them the same way.
If you were to bring scripts and tell me that these are from school A or school B, I’ll not be able to identify unless I go back to the database and check which school centre number this is or that”.
Mr Kapi maintained that the integrity of the marking process remains intact as examiners do not work with school identities, only with coded scripts.
WAEC Head of Public Affairs reiterated that the Council applies the same assessment standards to every candidate.
He further urged schools and parents raising concerns over the 2026 BECE results to provide evidence to support their claims.
Mr Kapi stated, “In the first place, when you talk about correcting issues, we need to have those issues raised.
Somebody will say they got a grade for a subject that they did not register. I wonder how that can happen. Unless we see the evidence, it’ll be difficult for us to just speak in a vacuum”, he stated.
“Out of 620,000 candidates, where do you start from and where do you stop? Whom do you write to and whom do you not write to?” he asked.
WAEC comments come after the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) claimed it had received reports from member schools alleging inconsistencies in this year’s results,
According to GNAPS, grades that do not reflect candidates’ academic performance and subjects that candidates allegedly did not register for.
The Council further called on WAEC to investigate the concerns and reconcile any affected results.
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