Ruby Rabiu
26 September 2007
Abuja — The Exam Ethics and Exam Malpractices Rating of states and geo-political zones in Nigeria have identified Borno, Abia, Enugu and Imo state as the states with the highest number of malpractices recorded in 2006.
Bayelsa, Lagos, Ebonyi, Cross River, Rivers, Edo and Benue states are also named with high cases of exam malpractices.
Giving its annual exam ethics report at the Bolingo Hotel, Abuja, the chairman of the committee, Mr Ike Onyechere, said that in 2006, malpractice cases increased in 11 states which was above the national average.
He said cases of malp-ractices had caused the states about N25billion in 2006, adding that cancellation of results by examination bodies stood at 410,000 in the same year.
Giving an analysis of the funds lost in 2006, the report made available to Daily Trust revealed that "the total amount lost by parents and governments to results cancelled on account of examination malpractices in 2006 stood at N21billion. This brings up the amount lost to examination malpractices related cancellations in the last five years to N107billion".
The chairman called for the scourge to be checked to save the education sector from sinking beyond redemption.
On the findings of the committee, the chairman highlighted that in 2006, WAEC's May/June exams, 82, 941 candidates were involved in malpractices 115, 426 sitting for the examination, he said.
"Between 2002 and 2006, the public exam bodies cancelled 2,143,860 results due to examinations malpractices. Our research indicates that at least N50,000 is required to fund the repeat of the session/exam in terms of tuition, books, fees, travelling, feeding, incidentals, e.t.c. This means that exam malpractices resulted in direct monetary loss of N107billion in five years," he said.
Mr Ike Onyechere blamed the high rate of crime in the country on malpractices in institutions which encou-rages dishonesty and fraud with impunity.
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