ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi
A whistleblower has uncovered massive irregularities in the list of candidates writing the 2020 West African Senior Certificate Examination (WASSCE), in Bauchi State, the Ministry of Education has disclosed.
The Commissioner of Education in the state, Dr Aliyu Tilde, who disclosed this in a media statement he made available to journalists in Bauchi on Friday, said that the whistle blower informed the Ministry of the discovery.
He said that “some of the irregularities include substituting the name of students who passed Mock exam with the names of ineligible students that failed it.”
Tilde said the list that was released by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), contained candidates who were not bonafide students of the schools they claimed.
He warned that “this padding will not be tolerated.”
He informed the principals that only two categories of students would be allowed to sit for WAEC in the State.
Tilde explained that “those who passed the Mock test and their names have appeared in the list sent to the school by the ministry and bonafide students of a school who failed the Mock test but have paid for WAEC registration through their school.”
He urged the principals to compile list of students affected by the irregularities –especially those who passed the Mock exams but their names did not appear on the regional Examination body’s list.
The Commissioner added that the ministry would carry out a comprehensive audit of SSCE candidates who sat for the two examinations in every school after each examination is over warning that “whoever is found to have committed any infraction will have himself to blame.”
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