With ongoing controversies over the threat by the West African Examination Council to withhold results of candidates for the Senior School Certificate Examination over some states indebtedness to the examination council yet to abate, the Nasarawa State government has clarified the state’s stand on the issue.

In a press release signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Nasarawa governor, Ahmed Tukur, the governor clarified that the state was not in any way indebted to the council.

The governor was reacting to a newspaper publication on July 29 (not THISDAY) which reported parents in Nasarawa State were becoming apprehensive over “the threat by WAEC not to release examination results of state who have not paid the registration fees of their candidates for the May/June examinations.”

“Nasarawa State Government wishes to state that we are not indebted to WAEC as portrayed by the publication. We wish to make it categorically clear that the state has not made any commitment with regard to payment of WAEC fees for students of public schools.

“But rather, the state has since assumption of office in 2011 by Governor al-Makura been paying the NECO fees for all students in public schools,” the statement clarified.
The statement further stated that “in consonance with Governor Al-Makura’s free education policy, the welfare of all students is the government’s priority.”

The state government implored the public to disregard any report to the effect of Nasarawa State being among the states indebted to WAEC and also assured that Governor Al-Makura will remain steadfast in his commitment to quality education in Nasarawa State.

WAEC recently alleged that 19 states were indebted to it to a tune of N4 billion and that the council was considering withholding the results of candidates whose registration fees were part of the state governments’ commitment.

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