By Abongwa Fozo
In a statement released on Tuesday June 9, the All Anglophone Teachers Trade Union (AATU) “categorically deplore the leakages” that has marred the 2026 GCE examination and calls on the government and the Transitional Management body of the Cameroon GCE Board to “do all that has to be done to apprehend and severely sanction the miscreants for this sorry, shameful transaction –the buyers and especially the sellers….”
The statement expresses grieve worry about the impact of these leakages on the credibility of the examination. “We are greatly worried about the dent that such impropriety by nondescript, unscrupulous individuals leaves on our examination and certification system, about the corruption and destruction of the youth that this twisted norms provoke as well as about the havoc such callous transactions wreck on the well-being and integrity of the nation”
The statement goes further to say such leakages not only wreck the examination system but leaves it “with neither respect nor integrity” but “rubbish the work of teachers” creating an uneven and unjust operational turf while hurting brilliant and/or poor students who chose not to indulge or lack the means to also indulge in such malpractices.
The statement encourages the government and the GCE Board to “continue waging a relentless war against all forms of examination fraud so as to aspire towards bringing sanity back into our evaluation and certification system” It calls for arrest and severe sanctions in the slightest “whiff of malpractice”
The statement concludes with an appeal to all stake holders, calling on parents to stop funding such illicit activities, for leaners to refrain from using the easy way out, for the general public to always be vigilant and decry any such activity and for school managers to shun the 100% urge that pushes them into unholy practices.
The statement signed by the presidents of the Teacher’s Association of Cameroon (TAC) and the Cameroon Teacher’s Trade Union (CATTU) Tameh Valentine and Semma Valentine came after a crisis meeting held in Bamenda on Saturday June 6, 2026 to assess the beginning of the written phase of the General Certificate of Education examinations organized by the GCE Board.
This comes after the government suspended for two weeks the written phase of some subjects of the examination due to what was described as “circulation of confidential examination questions through electronic means and social media platforms”
The examination initially programed to be written from June 2, 2026 was suspended from the second week and will now be written from Monday June 22nd to Thursday July 2nd 2026, maintaining the same time and day schedule.
