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Teachers, Students,Security Guards Nabbed For Stealing G12 Exam Papers
POLICE have arrested 25 people including a teacher and two security guards for allegedly stealing grade 12 examination papers at Mabumba Secondary School in Luapula.
Police assistant public relations Mwaata Katongo said in a statement issued yesterday that 22 pupils, a teacher, identified as Edwin Mutakasha, and two security guards have been picked in connection with the breaking into a head teacher’s office and stealing of examination papers last week.
On Friday last week, Mabumba Secondary School head teacher Fredrick Makuyu reported to the police that some burglars allegedly broke into the school’s strong room and stole some examination papers.
“Our officers picked up eight pupils who were found going through some examination papers and were being assisted by Mr Mutakasha, who is a primary school teacher at a different school.
She said police investigations reveal that the strong room where examination papers were stored was broken into and four trunks containing examination papers were found tampered with and some papers missing.
The missing examination papers include Food and Nutrition, Home Management, Civic Education, Religious Education, Science Paper Two, Mathematics Paper One and Two and Geography Paper One and Two.
Other papers are Science Paper Three (Chemistry), Science Paper One (Physics) and Commerce.
And a 14-year-old boy of Lusaka’s Kanyama township has been electrocuted and killed on the spot at Mavellous Private School.
Ms Katongo said the juvenile died on Sunday when he attempted to pick a ball from the roof of the school which had a naked electric cable.
And 11 people died in separate accidents which happened on Saturday and Sunday in Lusaka, Luapula, North-western, Copperbelt, Western and Central provinces.
Ms Katongo said the accidents were as a result of over-speeding leading to drivers losing control or hitting pedestrians.
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Mushkarano!!
November 6, 2012 at 11:08 am
Locks the Id!ots….Baleonaula Zambia!
tumfweko.com
November 6, 2012 at 11:36 am
oke here it is…!
Bamwine
November 6, 2012 at 12:27 pm
ok here it is…………..
Chama Febie
November 6, 2012 at 1:53 pm
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Teachers avoid bad manners. How can this primary school teacher assist in answering exams. Please police lock them up. These idiotes are distroying the education system in zambia. From sydney
November 6, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Pupils you are the future leaders. Stop fulishness of cheating during examinations you are killing the nation.
kakolwe
November 6, 2012 at 9:10 pm
From Kabompo to Luapula!! All colleges & Varsities plz introduce entrant examinations. The ECZ examination is no longer trustworthy
AMM
November 7, 2012 at 10:06 am
ECZ knows that the examinatiom paper that were stollen where to many why didnt they change the papers or since there were to many and heve circulated faster then better cancel the axams this yr and let the exams be early next year as long as the have print different ones,otherwise africa valued our standards but we will lose it out.
mbuyoti
November 8, 2012 at 2:33 pm
The issue of stealing exam papers and leakages that follow will. Never be stopped by placing security personnel or the building of sttong room in all institutions.
Why do we try this. Anyone found linked to the theft of exam papers, if a civil servant, must in addition to a mandatory imprisonment of not less than ten years with hard larbour (community menial work in all government projects) must loose all their pension dues. For a pupil, no more seating for exams for a period of not less than five year.
Of late we have experienced a lot of these cases without exploring the genesis of it.
In the last twenty years, has population growth been addressed in terms of social needs? Not at all. Census results have been used for political reasons without interpreting its growth with corresponding required infra structures. More youth means more schools colleges etc. For now classes meant for thirty pupils take over seventy. We have ended up with rowdy students who are on face book,twitter etc in class. Teachers are over loaded and frustrated but have to keep their reputation in the end.
If classes would be provided to de-congest classes and motivate teachers, then with the law suggested in place, we shall give our education a new face.
Does any one out there think the same?