A male candidate in the just started 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) at Duapompo in the Ashanti Region who places value on getting money quickly over education, has abandoned the examination hall for an illegal mining pit.
The final year student of the Duapompo MA Junior High School is said to have absented himself on the Wednesday, June 11, 2025, the first day of the examination to go and engage in illegal mining popularly known as galamsey.
This is despite the fact that he duly registered for the external examination.
According to Evans Nkum, a TV3 journalist who had visited the school to file a report on the examination, the incident got the school's management deeply disturbed. "We had a rather disturbing development from Duapompo MA JHS where we are told by one of the teachers that one of their candidate could not write the examination because apparently he left to do illegal mining.
