Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) in Dodoma Region is holding and investigating 13 students from the Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) for allegedly cheating at exams.
Addressing a press conference yesterday, Dodoma Region PCCB Commander Sosthenes Kibwengo said they were hunting for all those involved in cheating, while making public the names of the suspects.
“We are holding and investigating 13 IRDP students for cheating at supplementary exams. The suspects were in their third year, sitting for Applied Statistics course in November last year,” he said.
“Our preliminary investigations have shown that the students through corrupt means were able to sit for exams and solve the questions outside the examination room and later tried to sneak in booklets with answers in the examination room, but they were caught by their invigilators and IRDP informed us about the incident,” he said.
Although the investigations were ongoing, the regional PCCB chief had also named two suspects, who had a duty to report to PCCB offices for interrogation.
“We are working on how these students got the test out of the examinations room. So, our investigations continue until we find out who, within IRDP, was involved in giving them the examination questions,” he said.
“In our preliminary investigations, we found that there are suspects we think they might be involved. Thus, we want Evarist Antony Nyaki and Lameki Kawinga to report to our offices immediately,” he said.
He noted that this was one of PCCB’s efforts to fight and prevent corruption in various sectors of the economy, including the education sector.
Recently, in Dodoma, PCCB arraigned a University of Dodoma (Udom) assistant lecturer, Jackob Nyangusi (43) over sex corruption allegations involving a student.
The lecturer was arrested before he could accomplish his mission with a first year student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies.
After conducting thorough investigations into the matter and gathering enough evidence, in collaboration with the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), the suspect was arraigned.
