A former Police Education Officer, Malam Ibrahim Kabiru, has urged school principals to adopt zero -tolerance strategy in eradicating examination malpractice in schools.
Kabiru told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday that the schools belonging to the Nigeria Police had since stopped recording cases of examination malpractice because of the authorities’ zero-tolerance approach.
He said that eradication of examination malpractice was much easier when teachers and students were made to buy into the zero-tolerance to-malpractice mantra.
According to him, the school principals must remain in the fore front to maintain high academic performance by identifying and flushing out the bad eggs among the teachers and students.
“Our schools are doing excellently well, despite the general poor performance level in WAEC and NECO; our school still maintained our high records.
“Yes, it is true that there are reported cases of malpractice in some schools, not police schools.
“But all school administrators should continue to do their best to ensure that examination malpractice is completely eradicated just like we have done in our schools.
“The method is very simple; talk to your teachers, talk to your students, tell them that there is zero tolerance for malpractice.
“And at the beginning, anybody who is seen, even having traits of doing that, we automatically dismiss them.”
On agitations for the scrapping of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Kabiru said the exercise promotes cultural integration.
“NYSC, as far as I am concerned, is another level of education; it helps the youths to learn about their country.
“Youths today are enjoying it, in fact if you say you are asking the government to scrap it, the youths will protest.
“It helps to cement the unity of the country together; it helps the youths to know that after all, the average Ibo, Yoruba man is not what they tell them.
“It’s another level of education, it’s very good, it should continue.
The educationist, however, said that the scheme could be improved if the relevant authorities modify its current mode of operation for serving corps members.
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