A non-governmental organization OpenFees, has questioned the impossibility of West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination to take place this year.
According to the group, if the country can manage to conduct elections into political offices in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, students should not be stopped from sitting WASSCE.
In a statement released by the group and signed by it’s Portfolio Coordinator, Stephanie Ronald, the group said Nigerian Government should not to play politics with youths education.
The statement which was titled: If You Can Hold Elections, Students Can Take Exams reads partly;
“Science, technology and rigorous enforcement of hygiene and social distancing rules are already making it possible for schools elsewhere to reopen gradually and there is no reason why we can’t use that here.
“We are particularly concerned that JSS 3 and SS 3 students in public schools, most of who have not had significant learning because of poor access to online resources, would have to wait for another year before taking their final exams.
“If government can invest half the time and resources it wants to use to conduct elections, in spite of COVID-19, to provide safe environment for students, it should be possible for these final-year students to take their exams without too much difficulty.”
