The Delta State Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu has urged examination monitors to be diligent in their examination monitoring so as to preserve the credibility of the examination system.
Ezewu stated this in Asaba during the briefing ceremony organized for examination monitors for the 2025 West African Examination Council (WAEC) and NECO Senior School Certificate Examinations.
Represented by the Director of Examinations in the Ministries of Primary and Secondary Education, Mrs. Clementina Ojumah, the Commissioner underscored the role of examination monitors and the examination ethics committee towards ensuring the smooth and fair conduct of examinations without compromise.
She said that the briefing was geared towards reviewing their previous experiences in the conduct of Senior School Certificate Examination and to also look at areas where they could improve their strategies to ensure a hitch free conduct of the examination and measures to combat malpractices.
Ezewu stated that Ministry of Secondary Education had prepared guidelines for the 2025 examination monitoring exercise for team leaders, Chief Inspectors of Education (CIEs) and monitors in order to equip them with the contingency measures to curb examination malpractice as well as report with immediate effect, anyone acting as impostors at the field for further necessary actions.
The Secondary Education Commissioner explained that the administration of Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori had made huge investments in the education sector in the state through infrastructural development, capacity building for teachers, provision of teaching incentives, instructional materials and equipment to improve the education system.
While saying that despite the efforts of the state government in eradicating examination malpractice in the educational system, she noted that some schools and supervisors had been indicted over the years by WAEC and NECO respectively.
In their separate remarks, the Branch Controller of WAEC, Asaba, Mr. Isaac Igwe and the NECO State Coordinator, Mr. Harry Uhunamure implored the monitors to maintain the standard of monitoring so as to checkmate examination malpractices, adding that schools should not be a building ground for mediocrity.
They reminded the examination monitors to arm themselves with their identity cards and other necessary documents for proper identification during their monitoring of the two external examinations, stressing that many fraudsters were impersonating as monitors.
Earlier in her welcome address, the Director of Examinations, Mrs. Clementina Ojumah, who was represented by a Deputy Director in the examinations department (Secondary Education) , Mrs. Cecilia Eguriase emphasized the need for the field officers’ involvement in the monitoring.
Ojumah told the examination monitors to shun the habit of spending insufficient time in any examination centre even if it amounts to monitoring only two or three centres daily, but should try as much as possible to spend much time in the centre with a view to ensuring efficiency in their monitoring activities.
