CORRUPTION SERIES 2: CORRUPTION IN THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR

Going through my daily routine of reading through various newspapers, I stumbled into a powerful HEADLINE. Just the headline of the article reminded me of an article of mine I didn’t paste last month and just before I share what I just read. Let’s take a short stroll into an event that happened last month.

Examination malpractice has being a major problem in the educational sector. Some Students, Parents and even Teachers haven’t been able to survive without this addiction—it’s almost as living without air. Looking At Delta State for instance, I cannot but remember MRS. VERONICA OGBUAGU, a former Commissioner of Education in Delta State, who fought examination malpractice with all of her strength and when it seems like she was winning the ‘giant’, something happened: she left office and the person that took over the office couldn’t fight skillfully like her and that led to the REVIVAL OF EXAMINATION MALPRATICE IN DELTA STATE—and this ‘revival’ has dominated every state in Nigeria.

“How do we stop examination malpractice in Nigeria”?, a question I have always asked myself over the years and I seem not to have gotten a lucid answer but some people I have ask the question have given me some answers but when I critically analyze the answers, they are incomplete. Here are some of the answers:

1.   PUNISH THE OFFENDER

Even though this suggestion seems nice, the truth is that it has being an unproductive tool in eliminating the weed of malpractice. We have seen a huge number of students being punished but like HELL gets more candidates on a daily basis, more students are on the long queue waiting to get punished.

2. PLEAD WITH THE STUDENTS TO STOP

Somebody suggested this will work but I have come to realize that it won’t. It’s almost like pleading with me to stop writing articles or pleading with a new born baby to stop sucking the milk from the Mother’s breast. Malpractice is a life style that can’t be stopped by pleading.

Then WHAT IS THE WAY OUT OF THE FOREST OF EXAMINATION MALPRATICE? If you think you have an idea on how to eradicate malpractice, do well to share it so that we fight the Goliath once and for all. Anyway, that’s to one end.

West African Examination Council, WAEC , Officials confirmed that in the hurry to summit answer sheets to invigilators, some candidates forgot their ‘expo’— materials used for examination malpractice – in their booklet.  WHAT DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE DONE TO THESE STUDENTS?

Do well to answer any of the above questions after reading.

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