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Three Fined ¢9.5m For Exam Leakage
Story: Stephen Sah
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced three persons who leaked some of the papers of this year’s Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) to a total fine of ¢9.5 million or in default five years imprisonment.All the three convicts, Seth Kwame Quayson, 23, teacher, Anthony Kabenlah Cudjoe, 20, and Isaac Abeiku Quayson, 19, both students, pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful entry, causing unlawful damage, stealing, leakage of examination papers, dishonestly receiving, illegal possession, and knowledge or use of examination paper.The teacher was fined ¢6.5 million or in default four years imprisonment while the students were each fined ¢1.5 million or in default six months imprisonment.The court took into consideration the fact that they were all first offenders and students or had just finished school while the teacher had also lost his job.The facts of the case were that the teacher was stationed at Tikobo No. 2 in the Western Region while Cudjoe and Abeiku were also final year students at Half Assini Senior Secondary School and Adisadel College, Cape Coast respectively.On July 3, 2004, exams papers meant for Axim District were kept in a WAEC Depot at Fort Anthony, Axim, where the father of the teacher was the care taker.Although the keys to the depot were kept by two officials of the Ghana Education Service (GES) for security reasons between July 19 and July 27, supervisors of Nsein Senior Secondary School detected that on a number of occasions, when their parcels of questions were checked, either one or two question papers were missing.The question papers which were detected missing included Elective Mathematics, Literature in English, Business Mathematics and Principles of Costing 2, French 2, Physics 1, Geography 2, Economics 1 and 2, Agric Science 1, Integrated Science 2, History 2, Chemistry 2 and Social Studies.Following that, a report was made to the WAEC Head Office in Accra after which an investigation team set up to investigate the cause detected that the papers had already leaked in some schools in Agona Swedru, Cape Coast, Sekondi/Takoradi, Half Assini, Kumasi and Accra among others across the country.When some students were initially arrested, they all mentioned their source as from the Western Region . As a result, the two depot keepers were arrested and detained for investigation.Cudjoe who had been constantly mentioned by most students earlier arrested was also arrested but he denied any knowledge. Abeiku was also arrested when he went to Kumasi in a hired taxi to sell the Chemistry paper.The teacher was later arrested and he admitted breaking into the WAEC Depot through the ceiling to steal only copies of Elective Maths, Business Maths and Principles of Costing, Physics and Chemistry, which he sold to Cudjoe at ¢1 million.Cudjoe later corroborated the assertion by Quayson and explained that he gave the questions to his colleague students to enable them to pass the exams because he was an Agric student and did not offer any of the subjects.After investigations, the two GES officials were exonerated and discharged by the court.
Three Fined ¢9.5m For Exam Leakage
Story: Stephen Sah
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced three persons who leaked some of the papers of this year’s Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) to a total fine of ¢9.5 million or in default five years imprisonment.All the three convicts, Seth Kwame Quayson, 23, teacher, Anthony Kabenlah Cudjoe, 20, and Isaac Abeiku Quayson, 19, both students, pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful entry, causing unlawful damage, stealing, leakage of examination papers, dishonestly receiving, illegal possession, and knowledge or use of examination paper.The teacher was fined ¢6.5 million or in default four years imprisonment while the students were each fined ¢1.5 million or in default six months imprisonment.The court took into consideration the fact that they were all first offenders and students or had just finished school while the teacher had also lost his job.The facts of the case were that the teacher was stationed at Tikobo No. 2 in the Western Region while Cudjoe and Abeiku were also final year students at Half Assini Senior Secondary School and Adisadel College, Cape Coast respectively.On July 3, 2004, exams papers meant for Axim District were kept in a WAEC Depot at Fort Anthony, Axim, where the father of the teacher was the care taker.Although the keys to the depot were kept by two officials of the Ghana Education Service (GES) for security reasons between July 19 and July 27, supervisors of Nsein Senior Secondary School detected that on a number of occasions, when their parcels of questions were checked, either one or two question papers were missing.The question papers which were detected missing included Elective Mathematics, Literature in English, Business Mathematics and Principles of Costing 2, French 2, Physics 1, Geography 2, Economics 1 and 2, Agric Science 1, Integrated Science 2, History 2, Chemistry 2 and Social Studies.Following that, a report was made to the WAEC Head Office in Accra after which an investigation team set up to investigate the cause detected that the papers had already leaked in some schools in Agona Swedru, Cape Coast, Sekondi/Takoradi, Half Assini, Kumasi and Accra among others across the country.When some students were initially arrested, they all mentioned their source as from the Western Region . As a result, the two depot keepers were arrested and detained for investigation.Cudjoe who had been constantly mentioned by most students earlier arrested was also arrested but he denied any knowledge. Abeiku was also arrested when he went to Kumasi in a hired taxi to sell the Chemistry paper.The teacher was later arrested and he admitted breaking into the WAEC Depot through the ceiling to steal only copies of Elective Maths, Business Maths and Principles of Costing, Physics and Chemistry, which he sold to Cudjoe at ¢1 million.Cudjoe later corroborated the assertion by Quayson and explained that he gave the questions to his colleague students to enable them to pass the exams because he was an Agric student and did not offer any of the subjects.After investigations, the two GES officials were exonerated and discharged by the court.
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