The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has indicated its intention to challenge a court decision preventing the release of withheld WASSCE results.

An Accra High Court had earlier rejected WAEC’s request in a lawsuit filed by four students on behalf of others whose results were held due to suspected misconduct during the examination.

In an interview with the media, WAEC’s Head of Legal Affairs, Rev. Victor Brew, confirmed that the results would still be made available on February 28, except for those directly linked to the legal dispute.

“We are going to repeat the stay of execution application at the court of appeal in line with what is established procedure in court matters.

“As for 28th [February], it is for the generality of all outstanding results and just to clarify these are just a portion of all the outstanding results. So even as these 10,000 candidates went to court, we are still working and so 28th is a date to say that all results finally would have been worked on.

“Those that are exonerated, they would have their results uncanceled. Those that will be found culpable will have their results canceled. Perhaps the only group of people will be those students who took us to court, and we have to respect the court procedure.”He added that the results scheduled for release on February 28 would still cover students who did not attend WAEC’s inquiry regarding their withheld outcomes.