The National Examinations Council (NECO) has sought for
collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS) to check malpractice
in the conduct of the Council’s examination.
Chairman, Governing Board of NECO, Dr. Abubakar Saddique who
led the Acting Registrar and other management teams on a visit to the
Director-General of DSS in Abuja, said such collaboration would ensure the
credibility of the Council’s examination.
Dr. Saddique explained that the Council has put in place
measures aimed at checking examination malpractice, but noted that without an
adequate security architecture, such measures would not yield the desired
results.
He stated that among the measures introduced is the
biometric capturing of candidates to check impersonation at examination
centres.
The chairman, therefore, appealed to the personnel of DSS to
strengthen their collaboration with NECO to prevent any form of malpractice
before, during and after the conduct of the Council examination.
According to a statement sent to DAILY POST, the Acting
Registrar/Chief Executive, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed Gana, recounted some reforms
introduced by the commission for effective testing of students.
He said the council developed an intractable, robust, secure
and user-friendly corporate website, a full-scale biometric capturing of
candidates at examination centres, procurement of additional 20 pick-up Hilux
Vans for examination logistics and full payment of Duty Tour Allowance to staff
among others.
Gana noted that NECO has enjoyed the full support and
co-operation of DSS through the provision of covert operations which had helped
in reducing incidence of examination malpractice.
He opined that “the world is experiencing rapid changes
resulting from rapid development; these changes revolve around two major
phenomena of emerging Technology and Globalization”. According to him, while
these two phenomena have their advantages, they also come with disadvantages,
especially when abused resulting in the scourge of examination malpractice
assuming a global dimension.
The Acting Registrar also sought for the collaboration of
DSS in building an intractable open and secure filing system for the Council to
prevent possible incidence of tempering with staff records, especially in the
face of the on-going Staff Certificate verification exercise.
Gana appealed to the Director-General to ensure that
fraudsters who attempt to compromise NECO examinations are not only arrested
and investigated, but prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.
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