While passing exams often results to celebrations, this was not the case when a young student scored an aggregate of 30 in her Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The young student was branded a witch in her community because she was the first to pass BECE.
Women’s rights activist Margaret Brew-Ward disclosed this news while in an interview on JoyNews Show.
Sharing her statement;
Recently, there was a case we heard when we visited one of the communities that a girl who got around aggregate 30 in the BECE was branded a witch. Meanwhile, you know, in the cities, people are striving for aggregate 8, eight is and what not.
Just because in that communities, no girl had passed to go to the secondary school, so for a girl to do that, she must have been a witch.
Mrs. Brew-Ward asserts that there is need for measures to put an end to such acts.
