Stop hiding phones in your private parts – WAEC warns candidates

General News on Thursday, May 30, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-05-30

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) warned candidates, especially women, to refrain from concealing cell phones in their private parts in examination rooms.

According to WAEC, these culprits will be treated without mercy when they are captured.

Each year, the review body records high levels of exam practices with guilty students whose results are retained or canceled.

Ms Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, WAEC's Deputy Director of Public Affairs, in an interview with host Kwaku Owusu Adjei on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa FM, said that her outfit had strengthened security so that no candidate do not smuggle unauthorized material into the examination rooms.

"We have cases of candidates who smuggle mobile phones into the examination room. Sometimes hiding these cell phones is very serious, especially for some women. All that some of them have been asked to do is to successfully send the mobile phones, then the answers will be sent to them on their phones. So those are some of the things that caught our attention and that led us to increase our inspection and surveillance. "

In the meantime, she badured the public that the current 2019 West African Certificate School Examination (WASSCE) examinations had not been disclosed.

WAEC, however, has declared that it has opened an investigation into these reports while strengthening security in the examination centers.

Ms. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said some supervisors and supervisors had been withdrawn pending new sanctions, adding that a formal complaint had been filed with the department's cybercrime unit criminal investigations (CID) of the Ghana police "websites", allegedly helping in the examination errors.

She said some of the candidates suspected of being involved in exam errors are currently under investigation. In addition, the Council stated that it would review all school scripts where cases of cheating were reported.

"It should be noted that a large number of candidates have performed very well and that due diligence would be followed to ensure fairness to all," said Ms. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe.