PDP lambasts Aregbesola over owed WAEC fee

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party has called on
Governor Rauf Aregbesola to pay the
money owed the West African
Examination Council so that
candidates who took the exams can
obtain their certificates.
In a statement on Sunday, the party said
although it recognised the fact that the
administration of Mr. Aregbesola was
indebted to many agencies and
individuals, it should pay the money
due to WAEC.
“The money should be paid having
allowed students in the state to sit for
their papers on credit with the
assurance that the state government
would pay up,” the PDP said in a
statement signed by its Spokesperson,
Diran Odeyemi, said.
“Not paying the debt owed WAEC on
time, will jeopardize chances of many
students that are awaiting result of
getting admission to further education
Universities and Polytechnics.
“For the records, we want to inform the
world that before students that sat for
WAEC in public schools could sit for
their practicals, they had to pay for
specimens because of the refusal of the
examination body to send money to
schools to buy them.”
The party noted that WAEC withheld the
money meant to buy practical specimens
because the government owed it huge
sums of money.
“If Aregbesola can no longer run the
free education programme he inherited
from the PDP government for about
eight years with almost 80 percent
passing rates in external examinations,
he should not shy away from declaring
a state of emergency in Education in the
state,” the statement read.
“Taking exams on credit is another open
disgrace Osun is witnessing under the
watch of Mr. Aregbesola.”
The PDP said with teachers being owned
salaries, resulting in the closure of
schools in the past nine weeks, the party
could only plead with the Governor to
give education its deserved attention in
the state in the interest of the future of
the children.