2013 WAEC ANSWERS ON FACEBOOK

Few days into the ongoing West African
Senior Secondary Certificate Examination,
some people have posted purported
answers to examination questions on
Facebook and asked intending candidates
to get in touch with them for WAEC
question papers
These fraudsters indicated phone numbers
by which they could be contacted.
Our correspondent visited the Facebook
page, and saw answers to some of the
papers that had already been written.
But it was not clear if the Facebook
account holders posted the answers after
the exams were written or before, as no
question paper was posted.
Also, answers to the Physics paper which
was written around 9am on Monday were
seen on another social network site.
Our correspondent checked up the English
questions the candidates wrote on
Wednesday morning in particular and
discovered answers to the objective and
theory questions on the site.
There were over 10,000 likes on the page
with a visitor by name Aminu, saying, "Nice
one broz, but remember Government for
us, God bless you."
Two hours to the Chemistry practical
which was written on Thursday morning
at 9am, the facebook page operator had
posted answers which our correspondent
could not cross-check with the original
paper.
Two students of a senior secondary school
in Yaba (names withheld) who were also
writing the exams, told our correspondent
that aside the social network sites, their
colleagues got SMS alert of answers in the
exam hall.
A source, who is a graduate of
Accountancy from the University of Lagos,
said he had gone to report the
facebook leak to the Chief Security Officer
of WAEC, Major O. Badejo, (retd).
He said, ''I told him everything and I even
opened the page on Facebook so that he
might see for himself. He wasn't shocked
really because he admitted that there were
bad eggs within the system that had
continuously frustrated security efforts.''
PUNCH Metro spoke with the Deputy
Director, Public Affairs, WAEC, Mr. Yusuf Ari,
and was told that such gimmicks were not
new to the organisation as some people
make use of social network sites to dupe
unsuspecting candidates.
He said, "I have seen the materials on the
facebook. We have informed security
agencies. We will investigate those behind
the sites.
"They usually advertise that they can
provide questions to candidates, we saw
some phone numbers and the SSS will
investigate these to see the people behind
them.''
He however cautioned candidates writing
the exam to desist from patronising these
people, noting that they were only out to
dupe them.
"We advise candidates not to waste their
time and money visiting these sites or
patronising the fraudsters,'' he added. SOURCE: PUNCH