The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has faulted the five-year jail term proposed for examination fraudsters. It said the law was unfair to students, who were not provided with basic learning tools.

It blamed the spate of examination frauds in the country on infrastructural deficiency in the education sector.

The Chairman, ICPC, Ekpo Nta, in an interview with our correspondent, said more examination cheats were found in schools where there was shortage of human and material resources.

He criticised proprietors of schools, both government and private, saying educational institutions should meet standards or be shut down.

He said it was time stakeholders examined the structure, which had been promoting corruption. He added that once the system was corrected, the individuals would be corrected.

Nta said the last time students accused of exam malpractices were brought to the commission, he investigated their background and the schools they came from. He noted that record of exam malpractices was very low in ‘top’ schools, including public ones.

“It is very rare. Laboratories, libraries, computers, dormitories, dining halls and highly qualified teachers are in such schools. How will a child who has gone through such schools be involved in exam malpractices?

“By the time you begin to check those arrested for exam malpractices, they are from community schools, where there is a math teacher for the whole school; no science teacher. And then, you turn around to arrest a child who is a victim (of the inadequacies).

“If you prosecute such a child and jail them for five years, when you never gave them an opportunity, you will only make them toughened criminals when they are out. You didn’t give them a chance in the first instance, then, you jailed them in addition,” the ICPC boss observed.

President Goodluck Jonathan, through the immediate past Education Minister, Prof. Ruqquayat Rufa’i, had introduced a fine of N200, 000 or five-year jail term or both for examination cheats.

Rufa’i had tabled a memo before the Federal Executive Council, seeking approval for the enactment of an Act to amend the WAEC Act, CAP W4, Laws of 2004 to give effect to the revised convention of WAEC, 2003 in Nigeria.

The FEC had approved the amendment, with the office of the Attorney-General reportedly fine-tuning it, before it was taken to the National Assembly for passage.

Source:- www.punchng.com/news/five-year-jail-term-for-exam-cheats-unfair-icpc/

Hmmmmn

So unfair.

That law should also be stretched to the political offices as well.

Na them sabi

nice one

Ridiculous!

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Dis man is very right. Most of d students in community schls go to farm before going to schl in d morning and also return to farm after schl. U wanna compare dat student with d one dat live in Victoria island and schl in kings' college?

...this is the corruption he has the balls to fight....children doing long neck in exam hall?...

..why can't he provide such a concrete stand against grafting...this man is really slow.....

i give up

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I actually think 5years is short. Why do we like excuses in this country? "They were not provided with basic learning whatever".....so they should cheat? People wey dey pass without cheating get double heads? They should put down whatever they know........Encouraging malpractices will only make students more lazy! And these icpc people are fighting corruption oooo..,yet they spew this nonsense.


Okay na....shebi name only TOEFL dem cancel for Naija? E go surprise una when foreign institutions refuse to accept any exam (waec, neco etc) written in Nigeria! Then another Id/ot go come talk sey na politicians cause am.

What is bad is bad! icpc is such a disappointment

Ok

nigeria need to start reducing their jail term so that judge can start sending people to jail without prejudice but when a simple offence like exm cheat attract 5 years,a sensible judge will prefer to discharge you or fine you than jail you

Somebody Will Come And Ask About The Severity Of The Jail Terms Being Given To Our Polithiefians.

Yeah Right!

But How Can We Make Nigeria Corruption Free Without Starting From The Grassroots.

But When They Make Laws Like This, Stricter Ones Should Be Made Simultaneously For The Corrupt Leaders.

The man has a valid point. Why not peg jail terms or better still death sentences on our corrupt leaders instead of damaging the lives of young unopprtuned kids

.how many years jail term for election riggers and corrupt leaders?
how many years for Maina?

The jailterm won't deter students from examination malpractice as long as it's still the same corrupt govt agencies that will implement the law. It means they only have to pay more to get what they want.
#GhettoMentality

buncha hypocrites!

Clueless leaders.
bunch of domestic animals._.lol
Oyinbo na wa oo.

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U alright bro?

That rufa'I or what is she called? Is the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria's education sector, thank God she has been sacked.

so unfair
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The stupidity of a person called the President is mind boggling!

Why not start from his corrupt political cartel before coming all the way down?

The problem is, it's only the poor chaps in community schools that are arrested. This does not mean that children of big shots in high brow schools dont cheat. ln any case, 5 years is unreasonable. l don't think there's any country on Earth that condemns teenagers to a whopping 5 years imprisonment for cheating at exams. l don't know what Gej wants to gain by throwing poor children into jail. Cancellation of result and barring the culprit for say 1 or 2 years seems a better punishment.

how many years jail term was given to DSP alamiesegha,bankole,bode george,ibori,oduah,maina,lucky igbinedion, patricia etteh,farouk e.t.c ?

If a student is jailed 4 5 years 4 exam malpractice, wat will now happen 2 our corrupt leaders........I tink 50years will do

5years jail term for common exam malpractice,when our leader should rot in jail for bringing us to this level..our leaders always rant as if they are part of the rot in the educational system..some even pay mercenary to write their ward exam for them,they bribe to give their children admission,and so many bad practices. Abeg make them go siddon.