Chairman of the EEMI, Mr Ike Chinyere said in a statement:
“The exam bodies have organised exams for 84 million candidates from 1996 till now; of that 84 million candidates, you (exam bodies) have cancelled 9.9 million results. Now if you want to talk in monetary terms, having cancelled those results, if you calculate the exam fees that were lost, you are talking about N900 Billion lost and nothing happened.
Exam malpractice has become an organised criminal activity controlled by syndicates like money laundering syndicates, kidnapping syndicates and so on. The only difference is that exam malpractice is more lucrative; again, it is risk free; nothing happens to the people that are doing it; and that is our greatest challenge. The syndicates that operate are not hidden; they all operate magic centres; every exam, there is a migration from where they can supervise them to where they cannot supervise them.
And we know them; exam bodies we know them; all of us we know them; We have announced 6,500 magic centres that are found; nothing has happened to the syndicates, nothing happened to the operators.’’
He therefore sought the need for anti-corruption agencies to be set up, so as to battle this menace.
