Winneba, April 23, GNA - Twenty-nine candidates made up of 14 girls and 15 boys in the Effutu Municipality and Awutu/Senya District absented themselves from the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) that started on Monday.

They were from the A. E. Zion, Methodist, Anglican and Catholic Junior High, university Practice Junior High, Sankor Junior High, Islamic Junior high schools in Winneba.

The rest were from the Datus Junior High, Christians Church Revival Junior High and Bedeanu Junior High schools in Kasoa. The District Director of Education In-charge of the two districts, Mr. Daniel Arhin, said this when he and the Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Andrew Ekow Ghunney, and some officials from the District Secretariat of the Ghana Education Service in Winneba toured some of the examination centres.

Mr. Arhin however did not give out reasons for the absence. The centres were those at Winneba Senior High, Awutu District Assembly, Insaaniya Senior High Kasoa, Datus Senior High School at Kasoa and Banat Abdala-Great Promise schools at Kasoa.

Mr. Arhin said 5396 candidates from 63 public and 69 private schools are taking the examination at the 13 centres in the two districts.