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By Issah Sulemana
Everybody’s attention has been drawn to the current leaked WASSCE examination papers and the connotative damage it has inflicted on the national psyche in terms of the calibre of students and for that matter the labour force in the country. One would have expected WAEC to as it were, act swiftly and decisively to extinguish the flame that has been kindled by ‘who knows who’ did what, when and how? that has left the nation in a bottomless abyss of confusion. Needless to say, immorally triumphanting in the hopeless light of fraud cannot be accepted in any part of the world not even within the inhabitants of utopia.
My heart weeps for the country when I see students voraciously devouring the so called leaked questions on whatsapp, neglecting their books in the process while they browse the stuff on smart phones. With a display of open glee the numbskulls are seen scampering around as late as two a.m to either receive a whatsapp message or copy the stuff on pieces of paper.
Leaking examination papers seems to be a norm in the West African sub-region and students now think it is their inalienable right to receive such information and go a step further to wonder why authorities are bent on thwarting their brazen importunity. Talking about the calibre of students churned out by this system is akin to kicking against the pricks since there is nothing good to write home about the current crop of students.
In essence, I am one of those who anathematize the use of pidgin english to cover up for the deficiencies of our own iniquities kindred to the British High Commissioner his Excellency Jon Benjamen, who had to lash out on the news caster, Nana Aba Anamoah for a tweet the latter made in pidgin english.
Of course she ought to have known that her carrier as a journalist projected her in a light that attracted people of all walks of life to emulate her way of speaking and writing and therefore she must show a pesdesstrian example and not to wallow in antiquated, incongrous enlish language. Those who think that the high commissioner’s response to the news caster’s epic fallibility was condescending badinage are making an egregious mistake.
Everybody’s attention has been drawn to the current leaked WASSCE examination papers and the connotative damage it has inflicted on the national psyche in terms of the calibre of students and for that matter the labour force in the country. One would have expected WAEC to as it were, act swiftly and decisively to extinguish the flame that has been kindled by ‘who knows who’ did what, when and how? that has left the nation in a bottomless abyss of confusion. Needless to say, immorally triumphanting in the hopeless light of fraud cannot be accepted in any part of the world not even within the inhabitants of utopia.
My heart weeps for the country when I see students voraciously devouring the so called leaked questions on whatsapp, neglecting their books in the process while they browse the stuff on smart phones. With a display of open glee the numbskulls are seen scampering around as late as two a.m to either receive a whatsapp message or copy the stuff on pieces of paper.
Leaking examination papers seems to be a norm in the West African sub-region and students now think it is their inalienable right to receive such information and go a step further to wonder why authorities are bent on thwarting their brazen importunity. Talking about the calibre of students churned out by this system is akin to kicking against the pricks since there is nothing good to write home about the current crop of students.
In essence, I am one of those who anathematize the use of pidgin english to cover up for the deficiencies of our own iniquities kindred to the British High Commissioner his Excellency Jon Benjamen, who had to lash out on the news caster, Nana Aba Anamoah for a tweet the latter made in pidgin english.
Of course she ought to have known that her carrier as a journalist projected her in a light that attracted people of all walks of life to emulate her way of speaking and writing and therefore she must show a pesdesstrian example and not to wallow in antiquated, incongrous enlish language. Those who think that the high commissioner’s response to the news caster’s epic fallibility was condescending badinage are making an egregious mistake.
It will interest readers to know, that there is a
preponderate burden on the back of government to pay wages and salaries of all
categories of workers; whereas there is is a commensurate laxity in the quantum
of work done in the country.
Consequently, the country is replete with fraudsters, charlatants, accusers, sorcerers, conjecturers, flibbertigibbets, faultfinders, morons, besides many needless to mention. An area government can drastically cut down expenses is to check to ensure that only those who are genuinely qualified are recruited on the payroll. Government should therefore insist on eliminating examination malpractice in schools if it aims at reducing its expenditure to the barest minimum. It may involve training human resource (invigilators), acquisition of magnetic/metal detectors for schools and the examination body to avoid mobile phones being carried to the examination hall.
My humble advice is that, students especially candidates in schools should repel the notion that engaging in examination malpractice is some form of divine ‘help’ that is offered them and therefore they deserve it, rather a disreputable act that should be disdained by all those with convivial habits.
The deleterious effects of examination malpractice are like a double edged sword which cuts at both sides, first the student himself is unable to proof his worth when called upon to do so and second, square pegs in round holes giving rise to low productivity and loss of man hours, stealing, corruption, and all the vices that can be named are perpetuated by these blockheaded scoundrels.
*Issah Sulemana could be reached with isasu21@gmail.com
Consequently, the country is replete with fraudsters, charlatants, accusers, sorcerers, conjecturers, flibbertigibbets, faultfinders, morons, besides many needless to mention. An area government can drastically cut down expenses is to check to ensure that only those who are genuinely qualified are recruited on the payroll. Government should therefore insist on eliminating examination malpractice in schools if it aims at reducing its expenditure to the barest minimum. It may involve training human resource (invigilators), acquisition of magnetic/metal detectors for schools and the examination body to avoid mobile phones being carried to the examination hall.
My humble advice is that, students especially candidates in schools should repel the notion that engaging in examination malpractice is some form of divine ‘help’ that is offered them and therefore they deserve it, rather a disreputable act that should be disdained by all those with convivial habits.
The deleterious effects of examination malpractice are like a double edged sword which cuts at both sides, first the student himself is unable to proof his worth when called upon to do so and second, square pegs in round holes giving rise to low productivity and loss of man hours, stealing, corruption, and all the vices that can be named are perpetuated by these blockheaded scoundrels.
*Issah Sulemana could be reached with isasu21@gmail.com
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