Hammed Shittu
8 September 2008
Ilorin — Kwara State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, at the weekend cautioned officials of the National Examination Council(NECO) and West African Examination Council(WAEC) against colluding with examination cheats in the conduct of the various examinations in the country.
This, he said, would go a long way in complementing the efforts of the present administration in the country at checking the menace of examinations malpractice among the students.
Abdullahi who spoke with newsmen in Ilorin during his assessment tour of the ongoing conduct of the NECO examinations in the state where three students, a proprietor and one teacher were arrested for allegedly aiding examination malpractice in some schools in the state said that if the examination bodies neglected from their responsibilities, the nation's education growth will remain underdeveloped.
According to him, "It is disheartening that the officials of NECO that are supposed to work in line with the current move of the reform in education in the state should allow himself to be allegedly used by some school proprietors to register illegal students for the examinations in the state."
He said that, the development had allowed some examination mercenaries to take over the whole schools especially Akewusola College, Amoyo, Community Secondary School, Ogele and Local Government Secondary school at Budo-Egba where examination mercenaries took over the conduct of mathematics paper during the NECO examination in the state.
Abdullahi explained that, in the case of Akewusola College, the school in connivance with some officials of the NECO registered above the approved list of the students in the college to over 400 students as against 150 for the examination without the knowledge of the state ministry of education and this led to a lot of examination malpractices in the college.
The Commissioner noted that in the case of Community Secondary School, Ogele, the monitoring team discovered that the students of the school during the examination had the same answers for the Mathematics subject which they cannot defend .
He stated further that, the ugly situation in the ongoing conduct of the NECO examination in the state was borne of the fact that some of the officials of the examination body have been colluding with some schools in registering illegal students in some schools to allow them indulge on examination malpractices during the examination.
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