The Africa Education Watch has rejected comments from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) concerning the leakage of the Food and Nutrition Paper 3, insisting that the paper was disclosed.

Head of the National Office at WAEC, Wendy Addy-Lamptey, responding to the allegation on Monday, said aside from the fact that the alleged leaked paper had so many grammatical mistakes, it did not have the same questions as the original.

But, a statement from the Education think tank on Tuesday maintained WAEC’s submission is false.

“For the records, the said paper was posted on a Telegram platform at exactly 11:08 AM on Friday 20t August 2021,” the statement said.

This was about two and half hours to the commencement of the paper as it indicated the exam was at 1:30 PM.

According to the Eduwatch, WAEC was notified about the leakage hours before the examination was conducted and had begun to work with the examining body to improve accountability and credibility in education assessment.

“A screenshot of the question is attached (as it appeared on the platform), together with the actual questions that appeared in the examination,” the Education thinktank added.

The Africa Education Watch is by this statement stressing on its WASSCE 2020 recommendation that for an “increased security of WAEC’s question papers from the depots to the centres, and a digitisation of the questions transmission process to minimize, if not remove the human elements involved.”