Daily Graphic

Thirteen people including four teachers, have been arrested for alleged impersonation in the on-going General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level examination at Wa and Bolgantaga in the Upper West and Upper East Regions respectively, reports the Graphic in its lead story.

The paper says officials of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) arrested seven people at Wa while at Bolgatanga four teachers and two students were nabbed. According to the paper, the seven people who have been handed over to the Wa Police for interrogations are: Issah Salia, Issah Salifu, Damata Luri Fuseini Doris, Luri Fuseina Dorothy, Mahama Adamuand Mahama Adamu Bakari.

The police, the Graphic says, have mounted a search for their three accomplices who are on the run. They are: Issifu Dramani. Sanni Sabiru and Sanni Sabutu.

The Graphic quotes Mr Peter Banguu Mwale Ekellah, Wa Branch Controller of WAEC as saying the suspects, who had hatched a plan to cheat during the examination, used similar names for which reason their index numbers followed each other.

He said in the course of the examination, WAEC officials who became suspicious that five of the 10 suspects were writing for the other five, therefore alerted the invigilators to keep an eye on them. Quoting Mr

Ekellah the Graphic says when the time for the examination was over, the WAEC officials detected that each of the 10 suspects wrote different names and index numbers on their answer sheets and when the were challenged,

they could not give any tangible answer. They were consequently arrested and handed over to the police.