The West African Examinations Council has said that it will keep on holding on to the 2016 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results of applicants in 13 states until the build-up of WASSCE expenses owed by the affected state governments is paid.
The Council has likewise expressed dismay at what it portrayed as the nonchalant attitude of the state governments to respect
assention came to by both sides in the wake of the examination, saying that it flagged a 'symptom of more concerning issues.'
assention came to by both sides in the wake of the examination, saying that it flagged a 'symptom of more concerning issues.'
The official, who declined to name the debtor states said that the aggregate total of cash owed WAEC adds up to more than N2bn, with one state owing N500m. He included that eight of the debtor states were from the north, while three and two states were from the South-South and South-West geo-political zones of the nation, individually.
Claiming that a few states owed the committee since 2014, Ojijeogu noticed that an assention was achieved early this year for the debtor states to pay 40 per cent of the aggregate cost of the 2016 examination as a necessity for their students to sit for the examination.
"They reneged on the agreement we had admist registration. We concurred that they ought to pay 40 per cent of the registration cost and pay the rest later. We use the installment to counterbalance the excess since some of them have owed us since 2014.
"We even instructed them to give us Advance Payment Guaranty from reputable banks, however one of the states brought a record from a branch of a business bank, not even from the central station of the bank. We were permissive a year ago and we released the results. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you abandon it to some of them, they won't pay for five or 10 years. We won't do that this year. That is our influence and we can't go bankrupt as a result of them,'' he said.
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