About ten supervisors were arrested for their involvement in examination malpractices within the provide Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, (WAEC).
According to Patrick Areghan, the pinnacle of Nigerian National Office of the West African Examination Council, about ten supervisors were arrested for their involvement in examination malpractices within the present Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WAEC).
Areghan mentioned the arrests had been made within the states of Lagos, Kano, Bayelsa, and Kaduna all over a tracking of the examination in 4 centres in Abuja on Thursday, June 9.
“Our main issue is with the supervisors because just a handful of them are trustworthy, and it’s sad that these are the supervisors who were recommended by the various state ministries of education and hired by us,” he mentioned.
“We did not have the authority to nominate supervisors on our personal, so we relied at the ministry to offer us with certified academics.
“However, for the price of a pot of porridge, they sell their souls and allow candidates to enter the examination hall with phones in hand, snapping question sheets and posting them on specified platforms.”
Some of the supervisors, he alleged, are individuals of syndicate teams that administer the websites.
“The good news is that we catch them and they don’t go unpunished because we work hand in hand with Nigerian police,” he mentioned.
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