Opinion: No to Scrapping of UTME and NECO

Date: 2013-04-07

By Akorede Shakir Lom

In every leadership realm where stability of idea, effective creativity and concern for holistic advancement is lagging, nothing should be expected of such a mantle but retrogression in all its forms. As a builder will come today and another bulldozer will emerge tomorrow. Certainly, things will continue to fall apart!

Among others, education is an unequivocal paramount issue that good governance must tirelessly run towards achieving its stability, sustainability and effectiveness as far as its indisputable advantages are concerned.

Pathetically, Nigeria has become a victim of bastardization in diverse ramifications; our leaders are no more concerned about the youths of this nation, all we keep receiving from them is everyday turbulent styles of burying our future.

I join other trumpets of patriotism speaking on behalf of the voiceless millions of Nigerian Students, as I categorically condemn the Federal Government on the mission to scrap NECO and UTME.

To be objective, Nigeria is one of the West African Countries that runs WAEC, yet all others unlike the recent unpalatable case in Nigeria, still have their Domestic National Examinations, which its significant advantage can never be undermined as far as educational career of the citizens is concerned.

It is a great surprise when the Federal Government's caterpillar of destruction comes to destroy lives again.

Everybody hailed and appreciated the administration that saved the masses from meaningless headache and financial illness of UNIJAMB and POLYJAMB that has been confronting students over the years.

Our heart bleeds so uncontrollably when we deeply observe that the rationale behind the parochial scrapping of UTME and NECO is just a fraudulent scope of digging more holes of embezzlement and corruption. Rather, it will if not rejected, take the educational development of this country to a drastic level of non-development. The poor students of this nation will still have to unavoidably debit money in to the pockets of some political thieves and administrative exploiters, as the fact remains that every conscious admission seeker will certainly obtain both UNIJAMB and POLYJAMB respectively.

If to leave the angle of employment for someone else to discuss, Let me ask: is the Goodluck Jonathan led administration insinuating that the fact of obtaining a singular form that will randomly make a Nigerian Students eligible to seek admission into any of our Tertiary Institutions based on his specific score a senseless or a less lucrative means, according to their usual expectation?!

Are we saying all the students that has in one way or the other managed to file up a complete NECO result to compete in the battle of securing admission in this country will have to take the fate that their efforts are been wasted?!

NO! This is unpatriotic and barbaric, it is visionless and senseless. Nigerian Students and every youth-loving mind receive this as a declaration of war and act of retarding the progress of this country. Hence, we stand on all our formidable fits as we reject this!

Let our government re-think and go back to the drawing board. They should give us favourable dividends of democracy, without leaving Free and Qualitative Education behind.

Finally, we can only affirm our support for the scrapping on the condition that it will be free of charge for all students all across the nation and admission will be made more easier.

God bless Nigeria! God bless Nigerian Students!

Comr. Akorede Shakir Lom is an ex-Chairman, NANS KWARA

 


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