The Sun – Fraud at the 2017 Baccalaureate: The headmaster of Kahone High School receives 5 years in prison



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The judge was not lenient with the headmaster of Kahone high school, Mamadou Djibril Dia, found guilty of crimes of criminal conspiracy and fraud in exams and competitions.

The verdict fell yesterday. The principal of Kahone High School (Kaolack), Mamadou Djibril Dia, was sentenced to 5 years in prison, 500,000 FCfa in fine and the confiscation of all his property.

In rendering the verdict, Judge Maguette Diop said the headmaster of Kahone High School guilty of criminal conspiracy and fraud in exams and contests. The prosecution had, in its indictment, sought a sentence of 5 years in prison with a fine of five million CFA francs. The prosecutor's assistant, Papa Ismaïla Diallo, had also demanded the prohibition, for Mamadou Djibril Dia, to exercise the teaching profession for a period of ten years.

During his hearing before the bar of the court, Mamadou Djibril Dia admitted having sold French, English and history-geography exams to students during the baccalaureate sessions of 2016 and 2017. In 2016, the headmaster of the Kahone high school had sold 300 000 FCfa the history and geography tests to the pupils Ndew Badiane and Fatou Bakhoum

These, thanks to the contest of headmaster of the high school of Kahone, were able to fraudulently obtain their baccalaureate in 2016. In 2017, Mamadou Djibril Dia sold at 100,000 FCfa the French, English and history-geography tests at the same Fatou Bakhoum. She had bought the proofs for her cousin who was applying for the baccalaureate.

The accused had revealed to the bar that he was receiving the examinations of Mamadou Thiam, who was working at the Office of the Bachelor of Sheikh University. -Anta Diop of Dakar. However, it appears from the verifications made by a judicial delegation that there was no exchange of e-mails between Mamadou Djibril Dia, principal of Kahone High School, and Mamadou Thiam of the Office of the Baccalaureate. In his verdict, the judge also sentenced Fatou Bakhoum and Ndew Badiane to two years' imprisonment, including one year for each. The Dakar Criminal Court also handed down a two-year sentence plus a fine of 18 million CFA francs and the confiscation of all his property against Abdoulaye Ndour. This French teacher at the Yalla Suren school group, arrested at the same time as the principal of Kahone High School, had admitted that he was selling the tests to the baccalaureate candidates. The investigations have even allowed the court to discover in his account the sum of seven (7) million FCfa obtained through the sale of the tests. Two other professors, Saliou Sarr and Pape Oumar Mboup, respectively teachers of French and English, each received a sentence of two years, including one year firm. The other defendants, most of them students and students, were sentenced to terms ranging from one year to six months suspended.

Aliou Ngamby NDIAYE

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