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From Chijioke Agwu, Abakaliki
Ebonyi State Government has said that secondary schools in the state had been cleared and have commenced registration for the 2023 West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) exams.
Commissioner for Education, Sunday Nwangele, disclosed this during a briefing in Abakaliki.
He said timely intervention by the state government helped to lift the ban placed on 345 secondary schools from participating in the WAEC examination. The commissioner, who debunked media reports that schools in Ebonyi did not register for WAEC, noted that the state has a good working relationship with the examination council. He further noted that the 74th meeting of the National Examination Council of WAEC de-recognised the affected schools without proof of malpractice.
He said: “We got a notification that several schools in Ebonyi State have been derecognised by WAEC in their 74th meeting of the national examination council. “They said for alleged examination malpractice, this number of schools shall not write WAEC for consecutive two years or they pay a fine of N500, 000 each and other logistics for the conduct of supervisors for external examinations.
“When the notification came to us, the governor challenged me to rise to it, my ministry inquired of it from WAEC, and the relevant documents were made available to us stating that about 345 schools have been de-recognised.
“As it stands in Ebonyi now, all our schools especially the public schools registered for SSCE/WAEC without any limitations. So there is no confusion anywhere our schools are registered, our children are ready to write WAEC in 2023.”
