Ouagadougou: Twelve students from Kampti suspected of having cheated on the BEPC 2024, were placed in prison last Friday, pending further investigations, the AIB learned on Sunday from several sources, including the Bafujiinfo website.

According to Bafujiinfo, the alleged fraudsters, made up of ten BEPC candidates and two second-year students, created a WhatsApp group before the session called ‘The Family’, with the slogan ‘Everything but shame’.

The deception consisted, for one or more members, of sending the tests in the WhatsApp group, which the second year students would process and send back to the platform, to allow the candidates in class to complete their composition sheets.

According to Bafujiinfo, the deception was discovered on Wednesday June 5, 2024, when a member of the group was caught in the act of copying down the answers.

He was expelled and his phone confiscated. Which made it possible to get hold of others.

A South-West education official confirmed the facts to the AIB but refused to s
ay more because, according to him, the matter is now in the hands of the courts.

This is not the first time that school exam candidates have been caught in the net of justice in Burkina Faso.

In July 2023, seven students who used their mobile phones and draft compositions during the Baccalaureate exams received, from the Ouaga I TGI, sentences ranging from 6 to 12 months in prison with a fine, all suspended.

Source: Burkina Information Agency