Concerned Parents Educators forum’s Facebook page has seen some parents and educators vent their complaints about the exam fraud they saw during the National Common Entrance Examination.
The remarks alluded to the unethical behaviour of the examiners, who were seen calling out answers to the students during the exam on July 22.
The first anonymous post had more than 500 comments, and it said,
A parent at my school whose child took the Lagos State Common Entrance Examination on Saturday just gave me some less-than-optimistic feedback.
“One of the examiners called out answers to the students in the exam room. Not only were the answers called, but our students were also threatened and harassed for not taking the answers. “Why didn’t you write the answers when others were writing?” they hurriedly demanded.
“Please tell me why this is. Those kids are in primary school, for goodness’ sake.
Why teach and encourage cheating when we have worked so hard to instill moral and academic values in these young people? Why?
What sort of evil are those in positions of power sowing in these children’s lives? I just don’t understand this society, which is really sad. We continue to support and encourage evil characters while expecting magic.
When will Nigeria’s current situation end? I’m simply so irate. I am aware of the efforts we made to get these kids ready, as well as how hard they worked. May the vigilance officer meet his demise.
Omolayo Afolabi, another user of the internet, commented further, “Same story every year so not even CPE can do anything about it, and some of the teachers involved as invigilators are on this platform, all because of peanut they want to ruin some of the intentional parents and teachers effort, the real change begins with me and you.”
It’s happening in every state, Dammy Dorcas said. Last year, I was furious because administrators from both public and private schools were rushing around trying to find answers for the students. They eventually started asking for my cash, and from the way I was looking at them, they just left. I sternly warned my students not to shade anything that was given to them and told them not to tell my students anything.
In an interview with The PUNCH, the public affairs officer for the Lagos State Examinations Board, Mr. Fatai Bakare, insisted that the board did monitor some centres in Lagos during the exam.
