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Sahara Reporters Published That Imo Public Schools Charge Students N2,000 Per Subject To Allow Cheating During WAEC Exam

According to the news published by Sahara Reporters yesterday, some public secondary schools in Imo State are reportedly charging students N2,000 per subject to provide them with answers to questions in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

The school owners met with students before the commencement of the examination where they informed them that they would provide the answers if each student paid N2,000 per subject.

 A relative of the students, who spoke with our correspondent, said the schools claimed that majority of the students might fail because of the Coronavirus lockdown and unpreparedness for the examination.

The relative also said the school claimed that the money would be given to each invigilator monitoring the examination.

“The school management held meetings with their students and it was agreed they pay the N2,000 to settle WAEC invigilators to give them way for exam cheats.

“School principals in public secondary schools in Imo State are charging WAEC students N2,000 per subject as sorting fees to settle WAEC invigilators.

“They said the money will be to allow their students to engage in exam malpractices in the various subjects because of their unpreparedness for the exams caused by COVID-19 closure of schoolse since March 2020,” the relative said as he pleaded anonymity.

The relative stated that some schools in the rural area of the state wire collecting a lesser fee from the students.

“Other public secondary schools in rural areas are paying N1,500 against N2,000 paid in urban public schools.

“The schools came up with the plan so they can collect money from the students.

“The public schools are to generate over N300,000 per day and the maximum they will give WAEC invigilators will be N50,000 while the balance will be for the school management,” he added.

This WAEC examination started yesterday, August 17, and it is scheduled to end on September 7, 2020.

When this story came up on nairaland, some people reacted to it.

A Snapshot of people's reaction on nairaland


What do you think about what is happening in these secondary schools?


Here is the link to the source:

http://saharareporters.com/2020/08/17/waec-imo-public-schools-charging-students-n2000-subject-allow-cheating-during-exam

Comments

Carish said…
Good one you have shared
18 August 2020 at 09:01
Anonymous said…
True reality but really sad!
18 August 2020 at 09:13
Naya said…
This is very bad for our educational system. One will imagine what parents who can't afford to give their wards such money will do and what the desperate students will also do to get the money.

This is not peculiar to just Imo State but its general.

I also believe that serious students that read for the exam will confidently write the exam without payment of this outrageous amount.

I wish them good luck.
18 August 2020 at 09:22
Chinedum said…
This is outrageous, and seems to be widespread across the country. This is one one of the reasons why the reputation of Nigeria's education sector is poor. Thank God for the studious students in Nigeria.
18 August 2020 at 20:19
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