Kasoa court sentences three individuals over WASSCE malpractice

The Kasoa-Ofaakor District Magistrate Court has imposed a cumulative 20-month prison sentence on three individuals found guilty of examination malpractice during the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The convicts comprise Samuel Armah, a teacher at Ghana College SHS, and two university students, Kwame Oteng Nkansah and Amedeka James.

They were apprehended in Kasoa while engaging in various exam-related offenses. Armah, serving as an invigilator, was caught with leaked answers to the Social Studies Paper 1 on his mobile phone and dictating them to candidates.

He was fined 80 penalty units and sentenced to eight months in prison. Nkansah, a Level 100 student of Accra Technical University, 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 an identical sentence for impersonating his twin brother, Amedeka Justice, during the same paper.

The Chief Executive of the Awutu Senya East Municipality, Seth Sabah Sewornoo-Banini, noted lapses in candidate seating arrangements during a visit to one of the exam centres and said new measures would be implemented to prevent further breaches.

Municipal Education Director Frank-Etrue Hayford denounced the malpractice and reiterated his pledge to uphold the integrity of the examinations.