The results of 215,267 candidates, who sat for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have been withheld by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) over alleged malpractice.
The Head of the National Office of WAEC, Amos Dangut, while announcing the release of results on Monday, August 12, 2024, in Lagos said the number represents 11.92 per cent of candidates who sat for the examination.
Mr Dangut noted that the figure was 4.37 percent lower than the 16.29 per cent recorded in the same diet, in 2023.
His words, “The withheld results of these candidates that sat for the examination are in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.
“The increasing use of cell phones in the examination hall, in spite of the existing ban and organised cheating in some schools, are other nagging issues.”
According to Mr Dangut, all the cases of malpractice are being investigated and reports of the investigations will be presented to the appropriate committee of the council, for consideration and final decisions.
He also clarified that the outcome of the investigation and committee’s decisions would be communicated to the affected candidates through their various schools, in due course.
Dangut further urged candidates affected by the decisions to call for redress of their cases, if they so wished, via https://waecinternational.org.
According to him, the council will continue to sanction all cases of examination malpractice.
He said that schools, supervisors, teachers and candidates perpetrating the evil were not contributing to developing the nation’s educational system.
“All hands must therefore be on deck to sanitise the system,” he said.
