Six teachers and invigilators have been arrested for engaging in various examination malpractices in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
This was confirmed by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
the Head of Public Affairs at WAEC, John Kappi, disclosed that the teachers were arrested together with some students from different centres nationwide.
He also revealed that the teachers were arrested for allegedly writing answers for candidates and committing other infractions.
“In terms of teachers, I can say so far, we have about six of them who have been picked up for various offences.
“The candidates are a lot of them. It is not easy to give the number right now. We are still putting together the figures, and as and when we are able to compile the list, we will be able to put out the figure.”
“We have picked up in some of the areas where we were told that they wanted to collect money, and then assist the candidates. We have realised that there has been a lot of… We set our monitors around – there were actually widespread examination malpractices.
“They were able to pick up a number of them. In fact, it’s overwhelming. We have looked at the numbers, and basically, it’s about them having foreign material on them and then, in some cases, there’s a report about them writing on the board for the candidates to copy,” he added.