The Suame Municipal Education Director, Pastor Nyamesem Anthony has advised final-year students writing their West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) to make observing the various health protocols of COVID-19 in their various schools a key priority to safeguard their lives.

According to him, putting education first without complying with the health procedures structured by school authorities is needless.

“You are here to write your exams and if you don’t want to comply, you may write exams alright, but the certificate will come and you are already late, and I don’t think there will be any good use of that certificate,” he said.

“They should work with the school authorities so that we all leave peacefully and go out successfully.

"Very soon, we will all leave, so that little time should be used to concentrate on studies and observing the basic principles, respecting the school authorities, parents, and whoever has something to do with their stay here and their future,” he added.

The 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) begun on Monday, July 20, 2020, across Ghana, despite the scourge of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Some 375,737 candidates from 976 schools are writing the examination at 796 centers throughout the country.

The President of Ghana in his wishes encouraged the teaching and non-teaching staff, invigilators, and students to abide by the enhanced hygiene -mask wearing, and social distancing protocols that continue to serve as the weapons in the fight to defeat the COVID-19.

The Municipal Education Director praised the hard work put up by the headmaster and staff of the Islamic Senior High School in the Suame Municipal in ensuring that the enhanced hygiene protocols are adhered to. He encouraged the staff to keep on with the good work and asserted that if the law-abiding act is maintained, it will benefit the course.

“If what you 've seen today should continue, I think it will help a lot,” he said.

“The headmaster is so poised making sure those candidates writing and not writing are critically observing the COVID-19 protocols and I think if we do that, It will help.

“We know that students sometimes some of them are but ready to comply with the basic principles yet the head is doing all he can to ensure that there is no issue in this school and we are glad to see him and his team working towards that.

“We wish them well and at the end of the day, we pray that all will come with flying colors.