School rugby officials are to seek clarification with the Education Ministry after the hierarchy of Wesley College told them at an inquiry on Thursday that a player they fielded and was reported to be ill-legitimate was very much part and parcel of their institution.
A Wesley College team spokesman told the Sunday Observer that the player at the centre of the dispute, Nisal Peiris, according to an Education Ministry Circular was within his rights to be on the school’s attendance register and awaiting the results of the O Level examination that he sat for the second time. The spokesman said that Peiris had sat for his O Level exam a second time after passing in seven subjects and failing in Maths, a subject that compelled him to take up a second time at the O Level exam according to the Ministry Circular.
