WAEC Demands 70 Schools to Pay N35m before Results Will be Released, State React

Cursory: West African Examination Council (WAEC) demands that 70 post Primary Schools should pay a fine of N500,000.00 before their students results will be released.

If we can recall, last year, the examination body flagged 70 schools over malpractice and withheld the results of the students.

According to the Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Prof Ngozi Chinwude, she stated that the action of WAEC is a rip-off on the schools, adding that the punishment is being visited on innocent students while those alleged to have committed the crime had long graduated.

These were her exact words;

“It makes no sense because those involved in the alleged examination malpractices have long graduated and you are punishing those that are innocent and this is unacceptable to the state government,

“We have directed the affected schools not to pay because tomorrow they would come again with another fine and soon Anambra state schools would become a cash cow in the hands of WAEC and this we do not want,

“We are not in support of students being involved in examination malpractices and we have zero tolerance to such acts but to punish those that were not involved in that act is injustice,

There are other equivalent examinations students can sit for and we have not heard of any other state that has been flagged by WAEC and Anambra state cannot be singled out for such punishment.”