The West African Examination Council says it has identified 56 rogue website operators involved in examination malpractice since the start of its ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates.
The Head of the National Office of Council,
Mr Patrick Areghan, disclosed this on the sidelines of a monitoring exercise he
carried out in some schools in Lagos on Thursday.
He also said that no fewer than 20 school
officials, allegedly aiding and abetting examination malpractices, had so far
been arrested and handed over to the police.
“There have been issues like candidates
copying in the examination hall, some examiners dictating or writing on the
chalkboard for candidates, smuggling materials in and out of the hall and other
forms of collusion.
“But, most worrisome too, is the issue of
rogue websites.
“Now, let me tell you confidently that so
far, we have identified 56 of these rogue website operators and those who
patronise them, and we are going to pick them up.
“The materials that candidates see on these
rogue websites are all fake, as most times, the operators resort to
photoshopping.
“ They can just superimpose 2023 on top of a
paper of 2020 and use it to deceive them.
He stated, :By the time they get to the
examination hall, they become blank, as everything will become strange to
them.”
Areghan said that the council had compiled
the number of arrests made all over the country so far and would ensure justice
was served.
He noted that the council had a very good
working relationship with the Inspector-General of Police and other military
formations in the country.
The WAEC boss stated that examination
malpractice was as old as education itself, all over the world, stressing that
this did not mean that citizens should indulge in any form of it.
He called on the Ministries of Education,
governments and schools to live up to their responsibility in saving the
education system from imminent collapse.
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