The Ghana Education Service (GES) has set up a committee to investigate alleged exam malpractice in the Offinso Municipality in the Ashanti Region.
The four-member committee chaired by a director in charge of finance at the GES will start work on Tuesday (16 November).
At least nine teachers including those from privately-run facilities were picked at an exam centre while attempting to solve questions for their candidates.
A source tells Asaase News all teachers across the Offinso Municipality have been barred from entering examination centres.
Arrest
Meanwhile, security personnel of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), in collaboration with the National Security, have arrested 11 teachers and a headteacher over alleged malpractice in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which took off throughout the country on Monday (15 November).
The 12 suspects were picked up at two examination centres in the Offinso Municipality of the Ashanti Region and at the Senase Roman Catholic Basic School in Berekum in the Bono Region.
Offences
A source at WAEC told the Daily Graphic in an interview that at the Offinso Methodist Junior High School examination centre, a teacher of the Offinso State “A” Junior High School (JHS) was allegedly caught collecting money from the candidates while distributing the social studies answer booklets.
According to the source, when the teacher was questioned, she admitted to collecting the money but explained that the candidates decided to contribute the money to her for free.
However, WAEC officials believed that the money was meant to influence the invigilator to enable the candidates to indulge in examination malpractices.
In the second case, also in the Offinso Municipality, nine teachers and a headteacher were arrested at the Dwamena Akenten M/A JHS examination centre after they were spotted desperately solving the objective part of the Social Studies paper in the morning.
The source further said at the Senase Roman Catholic Basic School centre, Ransford Osei, an invigilator, was apprehended for allegedly taking shots of the social studies paper, which was being written in the morning, and sending the snapshots to a friend to solve for him.
However, while Osei was being escorted by the police, he absconded.
Jonathan Ofori
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