Investigation .... 22 UPSA final year students involved in result fraud (buying of results).BNI Investigation is still under way . Joy news report .

A grades manipulation scheme at

the University of Professional

Studies, Accra (UPSA) formerly

Institute of Professional Studies

(IPS) has been uncovered.

Documents available to Joy News

reveal, 22 final year students of the

school - who were supposed to

graduate last year - had thier

grades manipulated.

Ten out of the 22 have already

confessed to partaking in the

malpractice.

The students reportedly paid

various sums of money ranging

from ₵1,500 to ₵4,000 to have their

poor exam grades changed.

Joy News’ Kwetey Nartey followed

the development and reports that

the exam fraud was first detected

by the Academic Affairs Director of

the university.

He became suspicious of the

grades of one of the average

students in his class when he

requested for a transcript.

The Academic Affairs Director

reported the development to

management and a was committee

set to investigate the development.

An external auditor was

subsequently contracted to

investigate the fraud.

The investigations conducted by

the AKK Risk Management Consult

into the scandal, fingered Deputy

Director of the ITSD, Paul Danquah

in the fraud.

His password was apparently used

to manipulate the grades.

Further investigations by the BNI

into the scandal point to the

involvement of a director of one of

the departments, Edwin Ayernor.

A report released after the probe

indicated that phone records of

Edwin Ayernor showed that his

services were solicited for the

grade change.

Mr Ayernor however denies

knowledge.

“The BNI took my computer,

documents and my phone. They

have returned all these items to me

so the question is if the BNI found

something incriminating me on the

phone why will they return it to

me,” he said.

Counsel for the university,

Fortunate Fio told Kwetey

investigations are still ongoing and

the culprits will be duly punished.

He said the grades of the 22

students have been reversed.

“I can safely say that our students.

They were supposed to have

graduated last year and most of

them had papers to right so the

grade change actually occurred in

relation to those papers and we

have reversed them.”

Former President of the Student

Representative Council, Sam Chris

Obodai wants those complicit

dismissed.

He said a reversal of the grades is

not enough adding, “we are in a

society where people deliberately

do wrong things and even the bible

says when you commit a sin

deliberately, that is when you face

the consequences.”

Source:Ghana| Myjoyojline.com