Ebonyi Wants Synergy To Tackle Exam Fraud

The Ebonyi State
Commissioner for Education, Mr Ndubuisi Chibueze-Agbo, yesterday in Abakaliki called for strong synergy among the various stakeholders in the education sector, to stem examination malpractice.
The commissioner made the call while addressing newsmen on the preparation for the annual West African Examinations Council (WAEC) state review meeting slated for Abakaliki on Friday.
According to him, building such synergy and effective collaboration among the stakeholders in the sector is needed to tackle examination malpractice.
He described the fraud as a cankerworm bedevilling the education system as well as affecting the quality of certificates issued by various examination bodies stating that the annual meetings afforded both officials of the examination body and other stakeholders from public and private sectors the opportunity to review and brainstorm on ways to make the conduct of WAEC examination more credible in states.
“It involves top management officials of the council and critical stakeholders in the industry from the state. “Expectedly, vital decisions bothering on how to patch up loopholes seen in the conduct of the examination in the previous year as well as strategies to adopt to forestall examination malpractice in future are being taken,” Chibueze-Agbo said.
He said the council and government had devised new strategies to checkmate perpetrators who daily renewed their strategies to perfect the evil practice.
The commissioner said the state was, in 2012, declared an examination malpractice endemic free, adding that the government would not compromise the status.
“We have waged a relentless war against this social vice and nothing will make us rest on our oars in the struggle to sanitise the system and maintain the record. “Education is everybody’s business and together we shall achieve this dream of a completely examination malpractice free state,” he said.