Death Penalty For Exam Malpractices In Nigeria?

Seun, if death sentences are put on people who cheat in exams, i wonder what sentences you will propound on people who commit murder and manslaughter.
Do you have any ideas?

Instead of making a mountain out of a mole hill, why don't the nigerian educational system provide alternatives to jamb. JAMB is not the only way to get to the Univeristiy. where is A-levels?. where is further education?.

THe UK system of education makes it easier even for a dummy to go to school. it will only take a longer time lets say 4-5 years to achieve a univeristy education. But in Nigeria, if you don't pass jamb, or SSCE, you can't make it in life.

SO lets look into more alternatives than jamb and so called ssce. rememer, there are matured student who can cope with university education that extends for longer years.

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.  

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 I'm face for Crime Fighters

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.

i still believe that cutting the head is not the cure for headaches.
Why do students cheats?, that is the first question. i went to a government secondary school, my physics teacher is the laziest person on earth. he will tell a student to write note from the OKEKE physic textbook.

My maths teacher is a dummy who cannot solve questions posed by student. he will ask me and some opther brilliant classmate to solve it as a challenge.

My English teacher taught us figures of speech for a whole term.

I had a good biology teacher anyway.

My chemistry teacher only teaches epople in the front row seat. he as a low voice that you could hardly hear him in the back and we have 60 students in my class.

Tell me, how can i learn in this condition.
Tell me, how wont i cheat to pass?

Will you now tell me its my fault when i wasnt taught properly?

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.

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

we toogot some papers but most were fake

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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