The National Parents Teachers’
Association of Nigeria has said it is confused about the proclamation by the
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, that schoolchildren nationwide would not be
allowed to sit the West African Senior School Certificate Examination slated
for August 4 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NAPTAN National President,
Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, in an interview with our correspondent on Thursday, said
the association had resolved to meet Adamu by Monday to seek an amicable
solution.
NAPTAN had in the last week of
May called on the government to reopen schools nationwide “to pupils who will
be sitting external examinations of the West African Examinations Council and
the National Examinations Council.”
The association said parents had
resolved to work together with schools to put measures in place such as the
provision of face masks, handwashing containers and hand sanitisers to minimise
the risks of virus contraction by the pupils.
Reacting to Adamu’s directive
that pupils would not be able to sit the WASSCE this year, Danjuma said parents
were confused and that they would seek an audience with the government on the
matter.
He said, “Surprisingly, we heard
from the Federal Ministry of Education that the government has suspended the
reopening of schools. This is very confusing; we don’t know what to do. We are
waiting for whatever will come after this.
“On our side at NAPTAN, we are
planning to go to the ministry and meet with the minister or his
representatives to hear from them. It should be on Monday.”
The Minister of State for
Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, had during the press briefing by the Presidential
Task Force on COVID-19 last Monday announced that the 2020 WASSCE conducted by
WAEC would hold between August 4 and September 5.
But Adamu said on Wednesday that
all federal schools would remain closed until it was safe to reopen them. He
also urged state governments that had announced school resumption plans to
rescind such.
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