Exam malpractices have become pervasive in our society. It has been reported that Nigerian students routinely cheat during national exams at all levels - Primary School Leaving Certificate, JSCE, SSCE and JAMB - and even during regular tests and exams in their various schools. A drastic solution is required.

I hereby propose the use of the death sentence on Nigerian students accused of exam malpractices.

The death sentence has been used with great success against armed robbers in our country, and it has even been suggested for drug pushers and corrupt politicians. I say we wipe out these corrupt elements before they grow up to become robbers, politicians, or drug pushers. If a primary school student is caught cheating, she should pay with her life. If they are not too young to cheat, they are not too young to die. And die they must!

Some may say that this is too harsh, but I say it's too lenient, because Nigeria is much more important than the life of its citizens. Not only must we put students to death when they are accused of exam malpractices, we must extend this appropriate punishment to their parents, teachers, exam officials, and girlfriends. Yes.

We must also make it illegal for any Nigerian to protest against this law once adopted. Harsh laws are what we need to turn this country around, because naughty children don't deserve human rights. They deserve death.

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So a 10 to 16 year old child should be put to death?
Who sells the papers? they should be put to death . The suppler and not the demander

I disagree. Malpractices are bad, yes agreed but death sentence ke? A drastic solution is needed to stop but not one as bad as death that is a little bit too harsh for students. What about the students that are suspected of cheating? Will you say that they should be given death sentence or what?
Not everybody that is accused of cheating, actually did it. I think any student that is caught cheating should be severely punished maybe 1 month in jail with hard labour. You can't compare the sins of cheating to that of killing and robbing. After that one month, they should be allowed to take the exam one more time and if they cheat again, then you can start talking of yearly sentences maybe 5, 10 years.

One month jail ?
The jail is also a school your child will come out as a qualified criminal.
The things they will learn there nawa

I've been trying to gather my thoughts - this is really eye-popping.

I have only one question - what if someone was falsely accused and the truth only came out after he/she was put to death?

And I must admit, soldiers are bound to get queasy shooting children that could hav e been theirs to death. One final note - as in most Nigerian things, the sons and daughters of 'important' people are sure to be exempt.

I'll end with a quote from Mr President by African China:

Rich man wey dey thief d.em no dey show im face for Crime Fighters

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And what of those that allow people to copy from them.
take my daughter for example in exam her class mates struggle to sit near her .
She lets them peep or wispers answers.
But even if you wisper answer you can only wisper code words.
They too have stolen the exam paper at the end of the day they had to rewrite the exam.

Seun, I take it that this is a joke geared towards my advocation of death for corrupt politicians.

I think in this case, a 2 month jail sentence for any collaborator over the age of 21, and an exam retake for the student that is caught doing the cheating would suffice. Also, depending on the financial situation of the student, a fine of between 1-20 thousand naira should be imposed.

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My maths teacher will give us sums out of the maths book to slove and sleep till the bell rings.

my english teacher never came to class was always so called sick.
The others were ok

Seun the death penalty has been a resounding failure as a deterrent to armed robbery in Nigeria.  Yesterday in Lagos a 30-strong gang of AK-firing men attacked a Lagos bank and when the smoke cleared the ground was littered with over 500 spent shells and the corpses of 3 policemen.  Scenes like that have been almost daily occurrences dating back even to the times when public machine-gunnings of accused robbers were commonplace weekend family entertainment in Nigerian cities, so the death penalty just raises the stakes and creates a do-or-die mindset.

Your post was an obvious joke, but is likely to be taken seriously by some of our more extreme minded readers.

since you consider death sentence a good punishment for such crime, then odd suggestions like this deserves something more than a death sentence (lol).
well, we are working towards a mordern age where death sentence will only be possible in maximum cases like murder cases.
nobody is thinking of death sentence in the modern world these days not to talk about that in a common crime( exam cheating).
please help us mention other cases that deserve death sentence as for me, men who beat their wives should be punished with death sentence. or what do u think.

hmmm then prolly almost all naija students should be dead by now, who wants to say he/ she didnt cheat during waec or jamb, i no go lie, i saw expo for waec and my neco ssce, jamb that one is another story, even invigilatiors gave expo, wat is death penalty, lol. although its bad, theres nothn u can do to eliminate prolly just minimise

Move this to Jokes Section please. It's not even worth discussing.

we toogot some papers but most were fake

Seun:

Exam malpractices have become pervasive in our society. It has been reported that Nigerian students routinely cheat during national exams at all levels - Primary School Leaving Certificate, JSCE, SSCE and JAMB - and even during regular tests and exams in their various schools. A drastic solution is required.

I hereby propose the use of the death sentence on Nigerian students accused of exam malpractices.

The death sentence has been used with great success against armed robbers in our country, and it has even been suggested for drug pushers and corrupt politicians. I say we wipe out these corrupt elements before they grow up to become robbers, politicians, or drug pushers. If a primary school student is caught cheating, she should pay with her life. If they are not too young to cheat, they are not too young to die.

Some may say that his is too harsh, but I say it's too lenient, because Nigeria is more important than the life of any individual. Not only must we put students to death when they are accused of exam malpractices, we must extend harsh punishment to their collaborators including parents, teachers, exam officials, and friends.

Most importantly, we must make it illegal for any Nigerian to protest against this law once adopted. Harsh laws are what we need to turn this country around, because cheaters don't deserve human rights. They deserve death.

Hu Seun!! do you really mean what you are saying?

Cruel thoughts should deserve death also, abi! I hope you're joking, and just trying to draw attention to the enormity of the problem.

oooooooooooooo, u guys make me laugh sometimes.wen are talking about examinations,many of us place our minds academic examinations.Now,even known that life itself is an examination and many of us including seun who intriduced this topic must have cheated is on way or the other,what then is all the plenty plenty talk all about? i am not judging any body,but the truth is that we all must have in one way or thae other,fall victim of this occation.it is natural and normal to the human kind of life.TO EXECUTE THIS.IS TO EXECUTE THE ORDINARY HUMAN EXISTENCE.THE ONLY SOLUTION TO EXAMINBATION MALPRACTICE IS A CHANGE OF LIFE THRUOGH CHRIST JESUS.FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL STOP!

aloib:

hmmm then prolly almost all naija students should be dead by now, who wants to say he/ she didnt cheat during waec or jamb, i no go lie, i saw expo for waec and my neco ssce, jamb that one is another story, even invigilatiors gave expo, what is death penalty, lol. although its bad, theres nothn u can do to eliminate prolly just minimise

Wait a minute. I didn't cheat. Ermm, maybe I 'helped' one of our mutual friends. . . Does that count?

Yes it does. You're supposed to be O.Y.O. (on your own) during exams

Zahymaka:

Wait a minute. I didn't cheat. Ermm, maybe I 'helped' one of our mutual friends. . . Does that count?

I keep warning my daughter the day the will put their eyey on her , they will take her paper and give her a six that is fail.

j-girl,ABI? JUST AS THERE IS NOTHING LIKE WHITE OR BLACK LIE,THERE IS SUPPOSE TO BE NOTHING LIKE HELP IN THE EXAMINATION HALL! SO IT DOES COUNT,FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL STOP!

@seun, if that is the case, we can also impose death sentence for adultery and fornication. Afterall, it is also cheating against their spouse.

That is so true eastcoast

@ osaro - true, cheating is cheating

Haba Seun! How did even death sentence, in the first place, cross your mind for an offence like exam malpractice? My brother, I totally disagree with U on this one. Agreed, exam malpractice is bad but we can really minimise (not eliminate - because u can't. it's part of human nature to cheat) it by doing so many things right. But as long as those saddled with the responsibility of conducting the exams as well as our parents still aid and abet the crime, the end to it is not in sight.

If as you suggest Death penalty be used for exam cheaters then it should also be used for liars and ofcourse you have to wipe off almost the entire world. Death penalty will not solve the problem. Never!

Death sentence ke, Ori mi o, We do not have enough land to bury such a large number of people. NLs i must confess i wrote WAEC 7 times and Jamb twice and all through, i reiterate ALL THROUGH it's been malpractice galore. Make no mistake about it - I have never ever benefited from it (as in i've taught someone in the exam - MP maybe) but i'll never ask questions nor scout for orijo or "chips".
There was even malpractice in UME Post-Jamb so do we want to wipe the next generation out? i support maximum punishment for this crime but man, DEATH (by bullets or injection or hanging?) I love my friends o though they won't listen to me.
Death is not the way out o. Most people scrape all A's in their WAEC nowadays and 200 is a low score in Jamb, thanks to malpractice anyway (not ecause i did not make it at first choice). May be Seun should do a poll like "Have you ever been involved?" then we can estimate how many heads would have been buried by now.

There has to be a way out unless the Americans want to help us reduce our population at all cost, this time around, the future (young ones).They can't think for themselves anymore. They want to party, watch movies, blog on the internet, play PS2 and you know. . . who wants to study anymore really?

its definately not seun's proposal, its a sleep of something, hand or mouth, if you say we shuld fight against 5yr jail term for gay marriage and you want to propose death sentenced for cheating? haba get real. if your own child was caught doing it, would you prefer a death sentence.

Few months is okay or perhaps, rostication and expulsion would be better of, the more you cheat, the more you get expulsed. so simple and fair at all level and all age.

You want death penalty for exam malpractrice, and you are the same person kicking vehemently against criminalizing homosexuality.

Ok, it's a joke. Those that know me well know that I love to write such jokes. I was just trying to expose the folly of thinking that the way to stamp out corruption is by imposing extremely harsh laws, whereas the rest of the world is moving in the other direction.

If students know that they will be sent to jail for even one week, most of them won't cheat. But they know that they won't be caught, and so the penalty doesn't really matter. It is unjust to agitate for a penalty that is more weighty than the crime itself, when what is really needed is to be more efficient at catching offenders.

Moreso, if a law is too harsh, then it will be more difficult to catch any perpetrators of the offense. Would you report your classmate for exam malpractices if you know that such a person will be killed? Hell no!

Do you know why Nigerian armed robbers kill with impunity? It is because armed robbery carries a death sentence whether or not people are actually shot or killed. So if you are an armed robber, and you know that you will die when you are caught whether you kill or not, won't you prefer to kill anybody that stands in your way? That's why Nigerian robbers are daredevils. The sentence for armed robbery should be lighter than that for murder.

Some people have suggested the death sentence for political corruption, but do you really think the politicians will allow themselves to be caught if they know the penalty is so high? It would be better to make the penalty light - maybe 2 to 5 years in prison - but structure the system such that nobody will be able to escape justice.

When there is a way you can solve a problem without taking or wasting people's lives, and you proceed to use an approach that costs people their lives, then how can you claim to be better than a murderer? Senators please note this: it is unjust and unnecessary for laws to come with punishments that exceed the crime.

I was gonna YELL, THIS IS A NAIJARITA STORY!!

Come on now, death?

okay, i take it as a joke post on politic thread then. its all gud but men it would be disastrous if cheating is punishable by death.