The Oyo State Government is prepared to sanction all recently delisted schools for examination malpractice by the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) in the state for two years.
The state commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Barr. Abiodun Abdu-Raheem on Monday declared that the government of Oyo state will waste no time to reel out punishment to the erring schools.
This sanction also extends to both the principals and parents found wanting in the act Abiodun continued; he said, the State has zero tolerance for examination malpractice.
He, however warned principals to desist from encouraging examination malpractice which is now becoming endemic in both the private and public schools in the state.
“It should be noted that the Oyo State Government has zero tolerance for examination malpractice; therefore, principals, teachers of both private and public schools,
and parents were earlier warned to desist from any act of collaboration on examination malpractices as sanctions would be meted to concerned staff and parents”
Abiodun emphasized that only the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has the authority to release list of schools that were identified to be involved in examination malpractices and de-recognise such schools accordingly.
He further disclosed that de-recognized schools will not be permitted to present candidates for WAEC for a period of two years, “however, this does not debar students of such schools from sitting for the West African Examination Certificate (WAEC), as they are mobilised to the nearest school to write the WAEC; only the identified school is de-recognized as a WAEC Centre”.
“It should be noted that the Government of Oyo State will waste no time to investigate any such occurrence, while the necessary punishments as enumerated above will be meted to anyone found guilty”, he added.
The commissioner, however, advised heads of both public and private institutions in the state to desist from any act that could ridicule their schools and portray the image of the state in a bad light.
He, therefore enjoined the general public to note that no student in the State would be prevented from writing the WAEC in the 2022/2023 Academic Session and subsequent years.
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