Topic: Education now a risky business as you can be jailed 5years for malpractice.  (Read 2102 times)

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Any West African Examination Council (WAEC) candidate caught indulging in examinations
malpractices in any part of the country risks a minimum of five years imprisonment and N200,000 fine. This is because the Federal Executive Council has approved the memo from the Ministry of Education seeking to amend the WAEC Act 2004 in line with the 2003 convention in Ghana.

Briefing State House correspondents at the end
of FEC meeting on Wednesday, the Minister of
Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa'I, said the
proposal for the amendment would be
forwarded to the National Assembly towards
domesticating the convention in Nigeria.

The minister, who attended the briefing
alongside the Minister of Information, Labaran
Maku, Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi
Chukwu and Minister of Environment, Hadiza
Mailafia, said the new penalties also involved
barring offenders from taking the examination
in future.

She said: "With this amendment, any person that
may be caught in one of those acts will now be
fined in the sum of N200,000 or he may be
imprisoned for five years or both depending on
the establishment of that offence."

 

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