Expdonaloaded News; Exam debt: We paid N269m for 2014/2015 WASSCE –Delta govt

Delta State Government yesterday said it does not belong to the class of states indebted to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in the conduct of the 2014/2015 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).The examination body recently raised the alarm that 19 states of the federation owed it a commutative debt of N4 billion.

Although, the leadership of WAEC did not name the states, speculations were rife that the Delta State Government did not meet up with its financial obligation of paying for its candidates in the examination.
But the state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Chiedu Ebie, insisted that the state was not indebted to WAEC and that government met all its obligations to the examination body with the payment of WASSCE fees in January 2015.
According to Ebie, the state paid N269,440,650.00 for the 23,397 candidates which the state sponsored for the 2014/2015 examination, pointing out that the present administration would not take steps that would jeopardize the future of school children in the state.