The West African Examination Council has de-registered 13 faculties and blacklisted 14 supervisors for numerous levels of malpractice within the 2023/2024 examinations in Kogi State.
Following this improvement, college principals, academics and supervisors who help and abet examination malpractices will henceforth be prosecuted underneath the Kogi State Training Regulation and Different Issues Related Therewith, 2020.
The state Commissioner for Training, Science and Expertise, Wemi Jones, made this recognized on Wednesday in Lokoja, the state capital, in a gathering with some principals and supervisors who had been indicted for examination malpractices.
“The West African Examination Council has deregistered 13 faculties and likewise blacklisted 14 supervisors for his or her involvement in examination malpractices final 12 months. Examination malpractices is a prison offence and will likely be handled by the regulation.
“Subsequently, a committee headed by the Everlasting Secretary will likely be set as much as examine personalities who had been indicted by WAEC, and whoever is discovered wanting will likely be prosecuted within the regulation courtroom,” the commissioner stated.
The commissioner stated the state had invested closely in schooling and would not tolerate the angle of the “unhealthy eggs” drawing again the beneficial properties already made within the sector.
Additionally talking, the Everlasting Secretary, the state Ministry of Training, Dr Jibrin Alhaji, admonished principals and supervisors to desist from the act, saying their actions will not be simply robbing the state however destroying the way forward for the scholars.
He requested them to have a sober reflection on their actions as posterity will decide everybody in line with his or her deeds.
In keeping with him, whereas some academics are being known as out for awards, it will be improper for them to be known as out for condemnations.