Debt: We’ve received N2bn from states – WAEC

Head of National Office, HNO, West African Examina­tions Council, WAEC, Mr. Charles Eguridu, has dis­closed that the council has received 2bn out of over N4bn owed by some states in the country.

He said this during a media parley with Educa­tion Writers Association of Nigeria, EWAN, in Lagos at the weekend.

According to him, the parley was to appreciate the media who had one way or the other helped the council in achieving its mandate, especially in getting the money owed by some states.

It would be recalled that some months ago WAEC through a press confer­ence announced that some states had refused to pay for the May/June examina­tion of students from pub­lic schools, amounting to N4bn.

Eguridu urged the media to help in fighting examina­tion malpractice, describ­ing what is happening in the country now as “organ­ised malpractice.”

He said the development was a further reflection of moral decadence in the country, where the culture of accepting low quality, where anything goes is the order of the day.

“We cannot say we don’t have resources or human capital but it is our culture of ignorance, corruption and ethnicity that have deprived us of qualitative leadership and quality edu­cation.

“Until everyone effects change in every corner we found ourselves, where each one refused to accept corruption, lies, malprac­tice and cheating in our community, that is when the country will see the light of the day,” he said.