Six grade 12 Libala High School pupils who were caught with examination leakages have been handed K5, 000 fines each by the Lusaka Magistrate Court.
Magistrate Humphrey Chulu found all the six guilty and sentenced them to 18 month imprisonment or pay K5, 000.
In default of the fine, the pupils will serve an 18-months jail term.
In this case, the pupils aged between 17 and 20 years pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of examination papers or information.
On November 2, this year, the six, without lawful excuse had in their possession Grade 12 examination question papers.
The matter came up for facts and sentencing befor Chitalu.
Facts are that on November 2 this year around 09:00hours, a detective received a phone call in which the informer reported that some pupils at Libala Secondary School had pre-written mathematics paper one examination.
Acting on the report, the officer went to the school with an examinations officer.
The officers were ushered into the Head Teacher’s office where the suspects were and were found in possession of the examination papers.
Police apprehended the suspects and took them to Long acres police station where they were interviewed and admitted to the charge.
In mitigation, the juveniles, through a social welfare officer asked for court’s leniency as they were first offenders.
Magistrate Chitalu then fined the juveniles K5,000 each which should be paid by December 31 this year.
Mwalapila baice with your names tainted
And grade 12 will also be bamper of 100% pass!!
Mwa Lungu ni fire tender, maximum sentencing and exam pass. Ulya mwibala…
A jail term would have served as a better deterrent.
K5000? Only? How is this a deterrent? Prison is what will make people behave
Exactly! The problem is the stupid mother fcking judge who has been bribed to hand such a lenient sentence. Education is not that cheap and these idyots should serve at least 18 months as a minimum. Zambian courts are so useless!
The magistrate, the journalist, or the police are dull or compromised: Where did the cheaters get their leakage from? Find the root cause and fish out the big fish ba kuwe imwe!
K5,000 is nothing. These chaps should have been given 36 months and 24 months of not sitting for similar exams. So this mwibala thing is really happening big time. Just where did the pupils got the leakage from? ECZ or just schools are the biggest culprits.
We have suggested electronic examinations system and the fools at ECZ are adamant to take it because this is where they get their bread and butter from. Mwibala business. Tiyeni nazo!!!!!
Disaster!!!!
Who gave the pupils those exam papers? It would have been fair if we got the News that ppls as well as the person who gave them the papers have been sentenced. Now it is not complete