AKSG spent 1.8bn on WASSCE, NAPTEB exams for its citizens

The Akwa Ibom State government said it has spent over N1.8billion since 2015 for the payment of West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) for its indigenes in public secondary schools.

Special Assistant to the state Governor Udom Emmanuel on Education Monitoring, Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet, disclosed this on Monday in Uyo during the opening of a three day statewide leadership and behavioral ethics training workshop for prefects of public secondary schools in the state.

Etiebet said the state government has constantly paid final examination fees in secondary schools for its indigenes since governor Emmanuel assumed office in 2015 to relief parents from the burden of sourcing for funds in this era of recession.

According to her “The state government approved this training workshop to expose public secondary school prefects in the state to basic and fundamental principles of leadership and introduce them to the concept of behavioural ethics which will prepare them for future leadership.”

She warned the students against drug abuse, cultism, examination malpractices, premarital sex and other vices which could hamper their educational advancement.

Declaring the workshop open, the state Commissioner for Education, Pastor Paul Udofia, said training prefects of public schools is very imperative because they are the future leaders of the state.

He commended Governor Emmanuel for approving the workshop, explaining that to have a better society, government must catch the school children at their younger age and train them on good ethics and leadership.

He added that governor Udom Emmanuel has sustained the free and compulsory education in the state by promptly payment of subventions to public primary and secondary schools in the state.

More than five hundred school prefects and school counselors across the state attended the workshop.