Students of Adote Otintor College School at Bortianor have accused their Headmaster and Director of the school of misappropriating school funds.
The Director of the School, Bishop Fidel Owusu Agyei and Headmaster of the school, Mr Ebenezer Obeng Anguah have been invited by the New Weija Police for interrogation over why results of the 2020 WASSCE final year students of the school have been withheld by the West Africa Examination Council.
The agitated students and parents on Thursday stormed the School premise to demand the release of the 2020 WASSCE results but were chased out with a warning shot allegedly fired by one of the Director’s associates.
According to one of the parents, the Mr Fidel Owusu Agyei who doubles as the head pastor of Potters Hand Apostolic Mission and Director of the school together with Headmaster lied to parents and students that WAEC has withheld the 2020 results of the school as a result of examination malpractice.
A concerned parent called the WAEC PRO, Madam Agnes Teye-Cudjoe to confirm if truly the results of the Senior High School was withheld due to examination malpractice and to her utmost surprise she was told that no Senior High School’s results have been retained by the examination body for malpractices.
The PRO disclosed that the WEAC results of Adote Otintor College have not been released to the school due to non-payment of registration fees which all private senior high schools are made to pay to be allowed to write their West African Senior School Certificate Examination [WASSCE] in their respective schools as their centre.
A close source further revealed to some parents that the Director of the school, Mr Owusu Agyei and the headmaster, Mr Obeng Anguah have misappropriated the funds of 103 registered students meant to pay for the release of the WAEC results.
“We were 103 registered candidates who participated in the recent WASSCE exams. We believe that everyone including the students from the other school also paid their registration fees in full but up till now our results have been blocked.” A student agitated
Reacting to all the allegations, the Director of the school, Bishop Fidel Owusu Agyei told Kasapafmonline.com, he was not aware of the agitation of both parents and students till recently when he communicated with the headmaster of the school, Mr Ebenezer Obeng Anguah, who had travelled to his village.
“I got the information that the students’ results were blocked and so I tried to call the headmaster at a point and wasn’t getting him so I went to WAEC myself to verify.
When I went to WAEC, there were two issues which I sorted out one and the other aspect which is the registration of the school as a centre was not paid.
I tried reaching out to the headmaster and he confirmed that most of the students haven’t paid. I called an emergency PTA meeting in November to address the issue concerning the WASSCE results blockage. I tried to bring the Headmaster but unfortunately, I heard he was bitten by a snake and still on medication.” The Director of the school disclosed
He stated that he addressed the concerns of the parents and it was agreed that the school gets a loan to pay for the amount it owed WAEC for access to the WASSCE results.
“I met with the parents and we decided that we look for some money and pay for all the students including those owing the school and lodge a complaint to WAEC to block those owing the school.
I took it upon myself as the Director of the school to immediately get a facility to pay for everybody and write to WAEC to block access to all students who owe the school.” He stated
Bishop Fidel Owusu Agyei indicated that the process of writing to the Ministry of Education and getting WAEC to minute on the document to block access to some students who still owe the school was a bit of a challenge.
“Apparently, WAEC told us to write to the Ministry of Education informing them about that decision and WAEC will minute that document. The process was a little bit stressful but we were able to go through the process.”
He added, “The original amount was about 18,000 but because of the delayed in payment, there was a penalty which made us owe WAEC 30,000 plus.
I was at home when some students and their parents came to my house calling me thief. They were not ready to listen to any explanation. They also caused a scene at the school premises when I have left to the bank to get the facility to pay the debt we owe WAEC.”
