Examination bodies came under heavy criticism from the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) which alleged that students were caught with prepared answers to questions through their GSM handsets in examination halls.
The affected examination bodies according to the anti-graft agency are National Examination Council (NECO, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
Speaking a statement from its Resident Consultant on Media and Events, Folu Olamiti, the commission pointed out that the measures put in place by the examination bodies to monitor the activities of students and invigilators during examinations has failed in deterring such sharp practices.
The statement said the students now engage in sophisticated means of cheating in the examination whereby answers are downloaded using high-grade handsets both for objectives and theory questions.
According to the ICPC, it has become imperative for the Commission to raise alarm on the new level of cheating being demonstrated by Nigerian students during all grades of examinations as students now decode examination questions with sophisticated hand-sets.
Part of the statement read thus "ICPC said it made the observation during the last May/June, NECO and Jamb examinations by secondary and post secondary school students, insisting that the measures put in place by the examination bodies had not succeeded in deterring the students from engaging in mindless cheatings.
"The anti-graft commission said daring students would enter examination halls, mostly in many centers in Lagos with hand sets stuffed with prepared answers and would be downloading answers from the sets into their answer sheets.
"Members of the National Anti-Corruption Volunteers Corps (NAVC), an appendage of ICPC who monitored the examinations in Lagos reported that the students effected their criminal acts with deep connivance with teachers, invigilators and some school principals in most areas monitored.
"The ICPC, according to NAVC Report, said the officials confiscated not less than 35 hand-sets of different grades from students who were neck deep in using the sets to cheat during examinations.
"It said members of NAVC were specially trained to monitor examinations in Lagos West, Lagos East and Lagos Central and hence were able to decode all the tricks usually employed by students in cheating.
"The ICPC said it observed that the greatest level of ingenuity in cheating were exhibited by the students during mathematics examinations in WAEC, NECO and JAMB such that some students stuffed answers to objective questions in the subject as well as prepared answers in the theoretical aspects.
"It noted that answers to mathematics questions had been worked by unknown set of experts and then provided for willing students who in turn downloaded the answers into their different telephone sets as they sat for the examinations.
"The students were equally caught while mailing the prepared answers to their colleagues through GSM hand-sets, while the examinations were going on, a reason many of the sets were confiscated from offenders."
"The NAVC Secretary in Lagos, Prince Goodluck Obi, said, "It is disheartening that the students' have thrown caution to the wind to the extent that they have lost all sense of sanity, decorum and honesty while they freely engaged in vices like outright cheating, dishonesty, bribery amounting to corruption in all its ramification.
"It is against this backdrop that we in NAVC vowed to stop at nothing until examination malpractices in various forms and sheds are utterly eradicated in Lagos State and in Nigeria at large".
"The NAVC had recommended to ICPC that subsequent examinations in WAEC, NECO and JAMB should involve security operatives with special military or paramilitary training extended to as many invigilators as possible who would be employed for the purpose of monitoring the examinations in Nigeria," the statement added.
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The affected examination bodies according to the anti-graft agency are National Examination Council (NECO, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
Speaking a statement from its Resident Consultant on Media and Events, Folu Olamiti, the commission pointed out that the measures put in place by the examination bodies to monitor the activities of students and invigilators during examinations has failed in deterring such sharp practices.
The statement said the students now engage in sophisticated means of cheating in the examination whereby answers are downloaded using high-grade handsets both for objectives and theory questions.
According to the ICPC, it has become imperative for the Commission to raise alarm on the new level of cheating being demonstrated by Nigerian students during all grades of examinations as students now decode examination questions with sophisticated hand-sets.
Part of the statement read thus "ICPC said it made the observation during the last May/June, NECO and Jamb examinations by secondary and post secondary school students, insisting that the measures put in place by the examination bodies had not succeeded in deterring the students from engaging in mindless cheatings.
"The anti-graft commission said daring students would enter examination halls, mostly in many centers in Lagos with hand sets stuffed with prepared answers and would be downloading answers from the sets into their answer sheets.
"Members of the National Anti-Corruption Volunteers Corps (NAVC), an appendage of ICPC who monitored the examinations in Lagos reported that the students effected their criminal acts with deep connivance with teachers, invigilators and some school principals in most areas monitored.
"The ICPC, according to NAVC Report, said the officials confiscated not less than 35 hand-sets of different grades from students who were neck deep in using the sets to cheat during examinations.
"It said members of NAVC were specially trained to monitor examinations in Lagos West, Lagos East and Lagos Central and hence were able to decode all the tricks usually employed by students in cheating.
"The ICPC said it observed that the greatest level of ingenuity in cheating were exhibited by the students during mathematics examinations in WAEC, NECO and JAMB such that some students stuffed answers to objective questions in the subject as well as prepared answers in the theoretical aspects.
"It noted that answers to mathematics questions had been worked by unknown set of experts and then provided for willing students who in turn downloaded the answers into their different telephone sets as they sat for the examinations.
"The students were equally caught while mailing the prepared answers to their colleagues through GSM hand-sets, while the examinations were going on, a reason many of the sets were confiscated from offenders."
"The NAVC Secretary in Lagos, Prince Goodluck Obi, said, "It is disheartening that the students' have thrown caution to the wind to the extent that they have lost all sense of sanity, decorum and honesty while they freely engaged in vices like outright cheating, dishonesty, bribery amounting to corruption in all its ramification.
"It is against this backdrop that we in NAVC vowed to stop at nothing until examination malpractices in various forms and sheds are utterly eradicated in Lagos State and in Nigeria at large".
"The NAVC had recommended to ICPC that subsequent examinations in WAEC, NECO and JAMB should involve security operatives with special military or paramilitary training extended to as many invigilators as possible who would be employed for the purpose of monitoring the examinations in Nigeria," the statement added.
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