The Ofaakor District Magistrate Court in Kasoa has sentenced a teacher and two university students to a combined 20 months in prison for their roles in examination malpractice during the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The convicts are Samuel Armah, a teacher at Ghana College SHS; Kwame Oteng Nkansah, a Level 100 student of Accra Technical University; and Amedeka James, a Level 100 student of the University of Ghana.
According to reports, Samuel Armah was caught with leaked answers to the Social Studies Paper 1 on his phone, which he was dictating to candidates while invigilating.
Kwame Oteng Nkansah was found impersonating a candidate, Quayson Francis Atta of Ghana College SHS, during the same paper. Similarly, Amedeka James attempted to sit the paper in place of his twin brother, Amedeka Justice, also a student of Ghana College SHS.
The court sentenced Samuel Armah to eight months in prison and fined him 80 penalty units. Nkansah and James were each given six months’ imprisonment plus fines of 80 penalty units.
In a related development, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has shut down the Adventist Day Senior High School examination centre in Kumasi following widespread malpractice during the ongoing WASSCE.
The affected candidates have been relocated to the WAEC regional office to continue their examinations.
The decision was announced on September 4, 2025, during a monitoring exercise led by the Mayor of Kumasi, Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, who reaffirmed WAEC’s commitment to safeguarding the integrity of the exams.
