ALVAN IKOKU STUDENTS LOSE OVER 3,000 PHONES USED TO EXAM MALPRACTICE

More than three thousand mobile phones belonging to students of the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education Owerri have been destroyed by the management of the school.

Addressing journalists at the destruction site in the main campus of the College, the Public Relations Officer of the Institution, Mr. Tony Ololo, said the phones were seized from students inside examination halls as they flouted rules guiding the conduct of examination in the college.

He said most of the communication gadgets were seized between two and eight years ago and have been in the custody of the management pending the decision of the College’s academic board.

Mr. Ololo explained that the cell phones were set ablaze to serve as deterrent to those wishing to use the gadget to cheat during examinations.

The Chairman Examination Misconduct Committee in the College, Dr. Ernest Onwukwe, who handed over the phones for destruction, noted that the college would not relent in its fight against examination malpractice.

Some members of the College management and the media witnessed the burning of the mobile phones.

 CHINAZO ILECHUKWU