8:16:00 am
The chairman of the group, Alhaji Halle Mu’azu, told a press
conference in Katsina yesterday that the sample results revealed that more than
80 per cent of the students who sat for the examination had failed.
He said the failure is nothing but deliberate and systematic
attempts by the government to discontinue the payment of the SSCE registration
fees for Katsina indigenes.
“The executive of Katsina State Tallaka Zalla deem it
necessary to reject the results and call on the government to have a rethink
and do the right thing to avert the possible consequences which this
ill-conceived process may cause,” he said.
Mu’azu explained that the SSCE fees were, in the prevailing
economic situation, beyond the reach of many parents and cautioned that the
state would risk mass drop-out of final year students from its secondary
schools if the current administration made good its subsisting threat that only
candidates who pass the mock examination would have their registration fees for
2017 SSCE paid by the state.
It would be recalled that the state government advised
parents and guardians early this year that it would not pay SSCE registration
fees again for any candidate that fails the annual qualifying examination.
Leadership gathered That the condition, at that period, was re-echoed after some
protests and appeals by some candidates to press home their stance that their
parents could not get alternative means of paying the examination fees.
All efforts to reach the spokesman of the Katsina State
Ministry of Education, Malam Salisu, for his comments proved abortive as all
calls and text messages to his lines received no response as at press time.
Source: Leadership
