WASSCE: Delta sanctions 41 teachers for alleged examination malpractice

• PPEB to implement the disciplinary committee’s recommendations

Indication has emerged that the Delta State Government has sanctioned 41 teachers for examination malpractice during the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

The affected teachers are to suffer deferment of promotion by one year and banned from supervision of any school examination for three years.

Gentechnews gathered that the sanctions followed approval of recommendations of the Examination Ethics Disciplinary Committee by the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Patrick Ukah, who directed the Post Primary Education Board (PPEB) to implement the disciplinary committee’s recommendations.

However, principals and examination officers of 13 public secondary schools and one private secondary school, indicted for examination malpractice, are to be issued with letters of warning by the PPEB to desist from acts of negligence.

The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, further approved that Anointed Secondary School, Ubogo, Udu Local Government Area, which was closed down last year for examination malpractice, be issued a warning letter and allowed to reopen to give the school a second chance to abide by laid down examination ethics.

Mary Mount College, Boji-Boji Owa, was found guilty of examination malpractice by the committee and fined N100,000.00 as penalty to act as deterrent to other schools.

Meanwhile, P. O. Okolo is to be given a letter of commendation for a job well done during the examination.