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The Kasoa-Ofaakor District Magistrate Court has sentenced three individuals, including a teacher and two university students, to a combined 20 months in prison for engaging in examination malpractice during the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The convicts are Samuel Armah, a teacher at Ghana College SHS, and two Level 100 students, Kwame Oteng Nkansah of Accra Technical University and Amedeka James of the University of Ghana.
Armah, who served as an invigilator, was arrested with leaked answers to the Social Studies Paper 1 on his mobile phone and was caught dictating them to candidates. He was fined 80 penalty units and handed an eight-month prison sentence.
Nkansah was convicted of impersonating a student, Quayson Francis Atta, of Ghana College SHS. He was fined 80 penalty units and sentenced to six months in jail.
James was also sentenced to six months in prison with a similar fine after impersonating his twin brother, Amedeka Justice, during the same examination.
During a monitoring visit to one of the exam centres, the Chief Executive of the Awutu Senya East Municipality, Seth Sabah Sewornoo-Banini, expressed concern about lapses in candidate seating arrangements and assured that new measures would be rolled out to curb further breaches.
The Municipal Education Director, Frank-Etrue Hayford, strongly condemned the malpractice, stressing the need to safeguard the integrity of national examinations.
