The Minister of State for
Education Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has made a clarification on the federal
government's decision of not reopening its 104 Unity Colleges for the
forthcoming West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
Nwajiuba who confirmed that
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu's announcement of Nigerian schools not
being reopened for the examination scheduled to hold from August 4 to September
5 was in sync with the position of the PTF on reopening of schools, stated that
it is not binding on the state governments.
He said;
“Malam Adamu said the 104 schools
are not available, he does not have control over the governors. It will be
unconstitutional for anybody to say he can tell the governors what to do. You
have heard from the PTF chairman consistently that we try to marry what we do
with the Governors’ Forum.
“He was only given what you have
just received which was the timetable as published by WAEC, and advised that
this period from now till when these exams will take place in August, if
anybody who wanted to use the schools will have to follow this kind of
guidelines and that the Ministry of Education will issue those guidelines.
“The PTF never said they were
reopening schools. They only provided the assurance and that guidance. After
FEC on Wednesday, the minister, Malam Adamu Adamu, advised the public that
based on the information that the PTF and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
have provided, the Unity Colleges-that is 104 out of 19, 129 WAEC examination
centres, that he will not agree to reopen the schools. In fact, he went further
to advice that we do not open those institutions for use by WAEC and that it
was wrong for WAEC to impose those dates."
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