Police arrest 38 students over MSCE exam leak: Education ministry express dismay
Malawi Police Service in Kasungu have arrested 38 students from Chayamba Secondary school in the district over Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examination leak.
The candidates were arrested in swoop the Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) conducted and the students were allegedly found in possession of leaked electronic MSCE examination papers.
Kasungu police spokesperson, Harry Namwaza has confirmed of the arrests.
Meanwhile, ministry of education and Maneb officials are locked up in a crisis meeting in Zomba to map the way forward following revelations that the leakage is massive and wide spread.
In a statement made available to by Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Education Chikondano Mussa has since expressed dismay over reports that some MSCE papers have leaked and are being shared in social media platforms.
Why arresting students? They received papers from maneb culprit, why don’t you find the source of leakage?
This is kupweteka ana osalakwa
zimenezo ndiye za chibwana ana alakwa chani ? mayesa ana amaona mapast papers osiyanasiyana ndi kumakambirana? musazunze ana koma mulimbane ndi amaneb chifukwa ana sapita kumaneb. ana akutauniwo asazunzitse ana akumudzi. chifukwa wa kumudziyo samagona ndikuwerenga. apa zausilu zanuzo ayi ana apitirize mayesowo.ngati mupange cancel tiwonetsana chekhwe . icho ndiye mudziwiretu. kubomako mukambiraneko za nzeru. chifukwa palibe mwana anakolwa pa khomo la maneb
And the Board chair will not resign or be fired.
Kaya ndi umbuli ineyo. How do you arrest students for leaked exams.? Kapena mukanati cheating. Nanga do the students hv anything to do with leaked exams
Students are just recipient of the leaked exams. Unless, if they broke into the store room and walk away with papers of which this is not the case. There must be a source, the master minder of all this nonsense. Police should not rush arresting innocent students
Why is Malawi fond of dealing with the fruits and not the roots??? Shall we really progress and succeed as a nation? I don’t see any need of arresting the students instead of arresting the officials who leaked out the exams. Is this the change we were looking for? None can control what comes into a phone through social media and then it would mean a lot of us would be arrested.
Koma a police a ku Malawi mitu imagwira bwino bwino ndithu. Ana alakwa chani? Anachoka ku kasungu kukaba mayeso ku maneb? Ugong’oli winawu ovuta kumvetsa sure
Just release those students nanu inu. Carry out a thorough investigation and then arrest he who leaked the exams. Police, please wake up. I feel now Malawi needs an independent investigative department like FBI, The Hawks, Scotland Yard etc. Why arresting students?? school me please.
U have a point, why arrest a student who was not supposed to seee the exam paper b4 exam day. I just imagined that if i was sitting for these exams and happened to know that other pplse have the leaked papers and i happened to stamble on the paper, what wud i have done. Surely grab the opportunity so as to be fairly assessed along with the others on handwriting only.
Yoh that’s bad indeed