Man Impersonates Wife

The police have arrested a man who impersonated his wife in the ongoing West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination for private candidates. Ochere, unemployed, was allegedly writing the Integrated Science paper for his wife, Christiana Yeboah, a teacher at the Local Authority Junior Secondary School at Djankama, near Aburi in the Eastern Region. Thirty-year-old Kofi Ochere, who was arrested last Friday at the Presbyterian Secondary School examination centre at Legon, is one of 21 people so far arrested in connection with malpractices in the examinations which started on October 5, police said.
He man could be jailed for up to five years.

Kofi Ochere and his wife Christiana Yeboah, 28, a teacher, had both registered for the exam at the Presbyterian Secondary School in Legon, a suburb of the capital Accra.

But Ochere, who did not need the qualification, offered to write his wife's paper while she wrote his.

"He feared the woman would not do well. But at the examination hall, they noted the paper had a feminine name," police spokesman Beneso Darkwa said.

The two had been arrested while investigations continued.

"Both of them could go to jail ... the maximum sentence is five years," he said.

So far eight people had been arrested in Accra for pretending to be someone else during exams run by the West African Examinations Council for private secondary school candidates, Darkwa said.

Many pupils for private schools in Ghana are people who did not have an opportunity to go to school as children.