WAEC warns Stakeholders against Exam Malpractices

Center: The Head of National Office, WAEC, Mr. Patrick Areghan briefing newsmen in Lagos

The West African Examinations Council, has appealed to parents whose wards are to sit the 2023 May-June Senior School Certificate Examination, to study hard for the examination rather than seek for means to cheat at the examination.

The Head of National Office of WAEC in Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Areghan made the plea at a news briefing in Lagos.

He said any student caught in the act of engaging in examination malpractice would be seriously sanctioned.

He also warned school principals, examination supervisors and Invigilators who were always out to aid and albeit examination Malpractices to desist from such acts or be punished by law.

He stressed that while WAEC was not ignorant of the activities of the so-called “miracle centers” which were always out to help candidates to pass at all cost, necessary strategies had been put in place to deal with the operators and the patronisers accordingly.

The WAEC boss in Nigeria stressed that the operators of such illegal centers should close shop in their own interest as strong strategies were already on ground to locate such centers and punish both the operators and those patronising such centres.

Mr. Areghan said all these measures aimed at checking Malpractices in WAEC examinations were part of the Council’s strategies at protecting the integrity of its examinations and certificate.

Speaking on the safety of candidates at the different examination centers across the country, Mr. Areghan said WAEC in collaboration with the Ministries of education and security agencies had put necessary security machinery in place to ensure that the students and other examination officials at the examination centres were safe throughout the period of the examination.

He said in case there were issues of insecurity reported in certain centres during the conduct of the May-June examination, WAEC with the help of the federal ministry of Education would have to relocate the candidates to a safe place where they could continue with their examination.