A survey by
the Exam Ethics Marshal International (EEMI), revealed that Nigerians have lost
over N900 billion in examination fees to malpractice in the last 20 years.
This
revelation was brought to light by the Chairman of the organization, Mr. Ike
Onyechere, while fielding questions on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum
on Sunday in Abuja.
His words:
“The exam bodies have organized exams for 84 million candidates from 1996 till
now; of that 84 million candidates, you (exam bodies) have cancelled 9.9
million results.
“Now if you
want to talk in monetary terms, having cancelled those results, if you
calculate the exam fees that were lost, you are talking about N900 billion lost
and nothing happened.
“Exam
malpractice has become an organized criminal activity controlled by syndicates
like money laundering syndicates, kidnapping syndicates and so on.
“The only
difference is that exam malpractice is more lucrative; again, it is risk-free;
nothing happens to the people that are doing it, and that is our greatest
challenge.
“The
syndicates that operate are not hidden; they all operate magic centers; every
exam, there is a migration from where they can supervise them to where they
cannot supervise them.
“And we know
them; exam bodies we know them; all of us we know them;
“We have
announced 6,500 magic centers that are found; nothing has happened to the
syndicates, nothing happened to the operators.’’
The chairman
also called on law enforcement agencies to adequately prosecute and convict
exam malpractice culprits, to serve as a deterrent to others.
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