A magistrate Court in Kasoa, a city within the Central Region of Ghana, has jailed three individuals for engaging in examination malpractice.
The Kasoa-Ofaakor District Magistrate Court found the individuals guilty of engaging in examination malpractice during the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The convicts are two university students namely Kwame Oteng Nkansah, Amedeka James, and a teacher at Ghana College Senior High School, Samuel Armah.
They were arrested in Kasoa while engaging in various forms of examination malpractices.
Convict Armah was serving as an invigilator during the examinations. He was caught with leaked answers to the Social Studies Paper 1 on his mobile phone and dictating them to candidates.
Armah was fined 80 penalty units and sentenced to eight months in prison.
A Level 100 student of Accra Technical University, convict Nkansah was jailed for six months and fined 80 penalty units after impersonating Quayson Francis Atta of Ghana College SHS.
James, a Level 100 student of the University of Ghana, received the same sentence for impersonating his twin brother, Amedeka Justice, during the same paper.
During a visit to one of the exam centres, Chief Executive of the Awutu Senya East Municipality, Seth Sabah Sewornoo-Banini, noted lapses in candidate seating arrangements and said new measures would be put in place to prevent further breaches.
