Stakeholders in the education sector in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region, are blaming the dwindling performance of pupils in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) on the arbitrary transfer of teachers.

Additionally, the stakeholders noted that lack of quality supervision, lukewarm attitude of parents to education and the high rate of teacher absenteeism are also contributory factors to the abysmal performance of the pupils in the municipality.

At a School Performance Appraisal Meeting (SPAM) in Wa, the stakeholders appealed to teachers and parents to step up activities to improve the performance of the pupils at the basic level.

They further warned parents from engaging their children in farming activities at the expense of schooling.

Joy News' Upper West regional correspondent, Rafik Salam, reports that the Wa Municipal director of education, Sulemana Alhassan, is frustrated with the dwindling performance of 54 schools in the municipality over the past five years.

According to the municipal director of education, every teacher is teaching on the average 13 students and could not see why the performance of the pupils is so abysmal.

"Teachers are not so much over tasked and therefore we cannot understand why performance at the BECE level should be dwindling. It means every teacher has enough time for the pupils. You have every opportunity to see to the welfare of the children you are handling", Sulemana Alhassan lamented.

The Wa municipality, during the 2013 BECE, presented 54 schools and scored 64% with 10 schools scoring less than 30% and three poor performing schools, scoring zero percent.