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The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) has arrested ten people as part of an operation to clamp down on websites believed to be presenting fake questions as leaked examination papers.

The suspects have been named as Ebenezer Akakpo, alias Mr. Luke Dito Dito, 21, who operated the SHS Pop Up website and had over 26, 800 subscribers.

Samuel Owusu Frimpong, alias Koffi Linking, 30, is said to be a Physics teacher at Namong Senior High School in the Ashanti Region and operates the website Linking.

The others are, Alice Apama, alias Alice, 28; George Obeng Asiedu, alias Arafat, 35; Westerman Ayimadu Amankwah, a biology teacher of Osino Senior High School and Isaac Dadzie, alias Ike, 20.

The rest are Alex Asoeanyinah, alias Alabama, 39; Foster Bekoe, alias Akwesi Sakyi, 27; Nana Yaa Asanewa alias Nhana Yhaa, 19 and Prince Gbadago alias Sir Prince, 21.

A statement signed and issued in Accra by the Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said the Council has been monitoring the activities of the said websites in the wake of recent reports of alleged leakage of examination papers.

The activities of these websites came to the fore during the conduct of the 2016 West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).  According to the statement, the said “rogue websites” peddled fake questions as leaked papers.

"This illegal practice always created an impression of incessant leakage of examination questions,” the statement said. With the information provided by investigative operatives and the assistance of the WAEC Unit of the Ghana Police Service, the key rogue website operators were arrested and initially handed over to the Ministries police for further action. 

But later, the Council reported the issue to the BNI which took over the case and the suspects. They are currently conducting investigations on them to discover their collaborators and sources. 

It said arrangements are underway for the prosecution of parents, school proprietors and teachers who subscribed to compromised papers through one of the suspects, Mr. Luke Dito Dito.