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Annan Acquah, a 24-year-old level 200 student of the University of Ghana, Legon, has been sentenced to a fine of Gc600 by the Juaso circuit court for impersonating one Agyekum Kwabena Ebenezer in the on-going West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. Acquah, who pleaded guilty to impersonation, would serve a six-month jail term in default. Police Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Opare told the court that Acquah registered with WAEC to write integrated science with Konongo Odumase Senior High School as his centre. On October 3, while parcelling the Paper One after it had been written, invigilators detected erasures on the answer booklets of Acquah and Ebenezer who sat next to each other. The same anomaly was detected after the Paper Two, compelling the invigilators to confront the two but Ebenezer escaped and Acquah was arrested. He admitted the offence but insisted that he wrote for one Monica Oppong who also registered for the same paper.