Daily Graphic

Exams fraud?181 banned for three years

One hundred and eighty-one candidates who committed examination malpractices in the 1998 General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary and Advanced Levels nation-wide, have been banned from writing any examination conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in any of its member countries for three years, reports the Graphic in its front page lead story.

The paper says the names and pictures of those affected have also been circulated to all tertiary institutions, the headquarters of all member countries and the Council?s branch in London to notify them accordingly. According to the Graphic 40 of the culprits have been tried at Koforidua, Kibi and Nsawam, all in the Eastern Region, where they sat for the examination, and each fined ranging between 100,000 cedis and 200,000 cedis.

The Rev. J.A. Adotey, Head of the Test, Administration Division of the WAEC, who disclosed this in an interview with the Graphic in Accra yesterday, said 176 of those who were impersonated were Ordinary Level candidates while the remaining five were candidates for the Advanced Level. According to Rev. Adotey, 24 of those arrested are females. He said only three of the females sat for the Advanced Level, while the remaining 21 were Ordinary Level candidates.