…Call for cancelation of English Language
Parents under the aegis of the National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has condemned the poor conduct of the English Language examination in the ongoing Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) organized by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
To this end, the parents called on WAEC to cancel the examination conducted on Wednesday following the poor outing of WAEC and subsequently reschedule the examination at a proper time and date which will be devoid of the anomalies witnessed when the examination was held on Wednesday.
The National Publicity Secretary of NAPTAN, Dr Ademola Ekundayo in a statement made available to newsmen on the poor conduct of the exam, bemoaned the organizers of the examination and lamented the hardship the students went through, adding that parents were also put in serious turmoil as the whereabout of their children and ward could not be ascertained on time.
The examination which was scheduled for 4.00pm according to the time table released by WAEC did not start in all the examination centres across many states of the country until 8.00pm making it difficult for the candidates sitting for the exams to see clearly.
In many of the examination centres, telephones were used as the source of illumination, just as many candidates that sat for the examination were in darkness all through the period of the examination.
Dr Ekundayo who condemned WAEC, called for outright cancellation of the English Language examination held on Wednesday, as according to him no reasonable results can come out of the examination.
He also called on the examination body to apologize to the candidates who sat for the examination, lamenting that many of the candidates were subjected to hazards in the process of writing the exam, just as the parents were put into serious anxiety regarding the safety of their children and wards.
“This terrible situation is unexpected and it is not acceptable by the parents. The National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria condemn this in strong term and call for immediate cancellation of the charade refered to as examination. This was not an examination but a mere jamboree and we, as parents will not accept that,” he stated.
He called on the Federal Ministry of Education to intervene in the matter, threatening that parents all over the country will troop to the streets to demand for justice on behalf of the students who sat for the exam if justice is not done.
