Seven individuals, including two headteachers, two teachers, a senior examination supervisor, and invigilators, have been granted police enquiry bail after their arrest over alleged examination malpractice during the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Kyebi Amanfrom Basic School examination centre in Abuakwa South Municipality, Eastern Region.
The arrests were carried out by the Kibi Divisional Police Command in collaboration with officials from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), following an operation prompted by suspicions of malpractice. Sources indicate that WAEC officials, conducting an unannounced monitoring exercise at various examination centres, allegedly caught the senior examination supervisor and invigilators taking photographs of examination question papers with their mobile phones.
The suspects were reportedly apprehended on the spot and handed over to Kyebi Police for investigations. Preliminary checks on their mobile phones allegedly revealed that the examination questions were being forwarded to headteachers, who then collaborated with teachers to solve them before passing the answers back to candidates in the examination hall through the supervisor and invigilators.
Further police investigations led to the arrest of the headteacher and a teacher from Kyebi Odumase Presby School, as well as the headteacher and a teacher from Okanta Presby Basic School. The senior supervisor and invigilators arrested earlier are said to have assisted police in identifying the other suspects.
Representatives from teacher unions later visited the divisional police command and reportedly secured police enquiry bail for the seven suspects, assuring authorities that they were not flight risks and would cooperate fully with ongoing investigations. As part of the bail conditions, police confiscated all the suspects’ mobile phones and directed them to report to the station daily while investigations continue.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com