This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Education, Bauchi State, Dr Aliyu Tilde in a statement. According to him, some of the students’ examination fees were paid by the Bauchi State Government but they were fraudulently expunged and substituted with ineligible candidates by some principals.
The Commissioner noted that the 200 candidates were replaced in 30 WASSCE centres in the state “by unscrupulous individuals who always hijack any government’s subsidised programme.
He said some of the other victims either did not turn up for the online registration or had technical issues which few of the vendors who did the registration did not care to cross-check because they were heavily underpaid by a contractor.