The Federal Executive Council has
approved the amendment to an Act of the West African Examinations
Council, part of which will make culprits of examination malpractice to
be liable to five-year jail term or N200,000 fine or both.
The Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyat
Rufai, announced this in Abuja on Wednesday while briefing State House
Correspondents on the outcome of the weekly FEC meeting. He addressed
journalists in company with her counterpart in the Health and
Environment ministries, Onyebuchi Chukwu and Hadza Mailafia,
respectively.
Rufai said the decision of the meeting,
which was presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, was to “give
effect to the revised convention of WAEC, 2003 in Nigeria.”
She said the Council had subsequently directed the Ministry of Justice to take further necessary action on the subject.
Rufai had recently presented a memo to
FEC, seeking its approval for the enactment of an Act to amend the WAEC
Act, CAP W4, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004 with the aim
of giving effect to the revised convention of WAEC, 2003 in the country.
The 2004 Act, “empowers WAEC to take
disciplinary action against those who have committed both the offences
and penalties for illegally using examination papers and leakage of
examination papers.”
Section 19(1) of the Act reads in part,
“Such candidate shall not take or be allowed to take or continue the
examination; in addition, he shall be prohibited from taking any
examination held or conducted by or on behalf of the Council for a
period of two years immediately following upon such contraventions.
“If a candidate aforesaid has already taken any papers at the examination, his result therefrom shall be cancelled.
“In addition, the candidate may be
prosecuted and if found guilty, shall be liable on conviction to a fine
of N200, 000 or imprisonment for a term of five years or to both such
fine and imprisonment.”
The sub-continental examination body was
established in 1952 following the acceptance of the Jeffery Report by
the then colonial governments in Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria, Sierra
Leone and the Gambia and later joined by Liberia in 1974.
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And how many years for thiefing politicians? Mtsssewww!!!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.... So good, but what about election riggers?
ReplyDeleteAm not in support of cheating during examination. The five year imprisonment for examination!unnnh what about cheating during the election? after all cheating is cheating or there is executive cheating. We are watching you.
ReplyDelete5 yrs for waec malpractice and 10 yrs election malpractice.
ReplyDeleteAnd how many for looters of Govt treasury? God is watching u all
ReplyDeleteUna no get better policy to make bah #talk to the hand #
ReplyDeleteDefinitely there is moral consequences for what is happening in the country in the recent times. Leaders keep criminalising the young ones by overtly/blatantly lying, rigging and looting and you think all is well. What is the penalty for this heinous crimes?
ReplyDelete5yrs for examination malpractice,10yrs for election malpractice,life imprisonment for corruption & embezzlement of public funds. Any thing short kidnapping & execution of politicians & high office holders.
ReplyDelete1)Chris Ubah and Obasanjo kidnapped Ngige..how many years jail?
ReplyDelete2) Chris Ubah confirmed that he rigged election to the election petition tribunal..how many years jail term?
3)Fake Dr Andy Ubah submitted fake MSc & PhD certificates to INEC...how many years jail term?
4) Obj knowingly appointed fake Dr Ubah as his adviser for domestic affairs...reward given instead of punishment.
5)Omisore was the sole suspect in the murder of Bola Ige but "Junk President" Obj nomited him to contest for senate, campaigned for him and "won" for him! So he proceeded from detention to the Senate...tufiakwa/abomination! When will obj and Omisore serve their jail terms?
They want to punish school children pactising what there leaders are teaching them. The country is SICK!!!
all this politicians that makes stupid laws that excludes them are really mad...so you don't have serious and better issues to discuss than to be talking about innocent people on the street that are struggling to become something in life...one by one you will be crashing like suntai....
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