The House of Representatives on Wednesday urged
states owing the West African Examination Council to pay the fees of
government-sponsored candidates for the 2014 and 2015 examinations.
The resolution followed a motion of urgent public
importance sponsored by Linus Okorie (Ebonyi-PDP) and unanimously adopted by
the members.
Mr. Okorie expressed concern that over 600,000
candidates risked the threat of their West African Senior School Certificate
Examination results being withheld by the council.
WAEC threatened to withhold the results of
candidates of unnamed 19 affected states over an alleged four billion naira
debt owed the council.
“The threat if implemented will affect more than half of the 1.2 million innocent young candidates that sat for the examination, disrupt their academic pursuit and disorient them psychologically,” Mr. Okorie said.
He said the inability of the affected states to
settle the alleged debt had led the council to bankruptcy.
“This alleged financial constraint is said to be
negatively affecting the capacity of the council to meet its financial
obligations, particularly its supervisors, examiners and service providers,’’
Okorie said.
The house, therefore, resolved to constitute an
Adhoc Committee to urgently intervene in the alleged debt crisis.
It stated that the committee would report back to
the house within one week.
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