Ekiti govt pays N546m students’ WASSCE fees, says no to unauthorised payment
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Ekiti State government said it had spent N546.90 million as 2024 West Africa Examination Council/ Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC/SSCE) fees.
This is just as the government also cautioned parents and guardians against paying unauthorised fees, noting that such act undermined government’s policy and impaired efforts to boost the socioeconomic status of the people.
The state commissioner for education, Dr Bimpe Aderiye, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
According to her, the sum represented the administrative expenses of all the 16,269 SSS 3 students in public secondary schools in the state registered for the examination.
She said no public secondary school in the state was, therefore, authorised to collect any WAEC registration fee.
Aderiye warned that it would be an act of sabotage for officials of any of the public schools in the state to demand for any fee in respect of the examination.
She advised all stakeholders to report any demand for the 2024 unauthorised fees to her office or those of Permanent Secretaries of Education or Teaching Service Commission.
