Fifty-six rogue websites leaking WASSCE question papers identified, to be prosecuted: WAEC
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) says it has identified 56 rogue website operators that leaked its West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).
The head of the national office in Nigeria, Patrick Areghan, said this on Thursday in Abuja while monitoring the examination in some government secondary schools.
Mr Areghan said the rogue website operators would be prosecuted, alleging that dubious supervisors are responsible for malpractices during examinations.
”We have a regulation to release papers to supervisors one hour before commencement time to enable them to go from the collection point to the administrative point because of distance in some schools,” stated the WAEC official. ”But what they do is to snap the question papers and send them to their syndicate groups.”
He added, ”Candidates are already in the exam hall and you are posting the questions. Sometimes, they change the front of the questions and add 2023 for exam questions of 2020. Some gullible parents and students will go for it and destroy themselves because there is no way they can get our questions.”
The WAEC official explained that the exam body had implemented technology to detect malpractices from any location.
”I am happy to announce that so far in this exam, we have made a lot of arrests. We made arrests in Ibadan, Maiduguri, Abeokuta, Osogbo, Umuahia and many other states,” he disclosed.
Mr Areghan said further, “In all, we have made arrests of no fewer than 15 persons comprising candidates, supervisors, school proprietors, and others connected with the malpractices.”
(NAN)
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