Reps dare FG over attempt to scrap NECO

THE House of Representatives has expressed its determination to ensure, within the reach of the constitution, that the Federal Government back down on the proposed report to scrap the National Examinations Council (NECO). It stated this while speaking through the chairman, House Committee on Education, Honourable Aminu Suleiman, when the committee paid a visit to the Niger State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, on Tuesday,.

The committee was on a working visit to Minna, for an oversight function to federal educational institutions in the state.

Honourable Suleiman said the House was not in support of the Stephen Orasanye-led committee report, which recommended the scrapping of the examinations body.

According to him, “we at the National Assembly are opposed to the scrapping of NECO and will do everything to ensure that it is not scrapped, because it is about the only indigenous examinations body in the country.”

He stated that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) should not be seen as an alternative for NECO, adding that it was a West African examination body, which served the whole of West Africa and not an indigenous one, which should meet the needs of all Nigerians.

“As representatives of the people, it is our duty to ensure that children of the masses are given the opportunity to write indigenous examinations and even create more to accommodate the number of children in the country, rather than encourage scrapping.

“We should have more of these indigenous examination bodies rather than to scrap them, to enable those whose parents cannot afford the blue and green examinations the opportunities to write their examinations and be educated,” he stated.

Suleiman, while responding to questions on what the House was doing to improve the educational standard and why it had not passed laws that children and wards of all public servants should be mandated to attend schools in the country, said “as a matter of public deliberate policy for Nigerians to attend school in Nigeria, children of public servants should attend schools in the country to encourage public schools.”

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