#BringBackOurGirls: Borno gov’t refused to relocate Chibok schoolgirls for exams – WAEC boss

by Zara Mustapha

Gov. Kashim Shettima

Head of the National Office of WAEC, Charles Eguridu, said the Borno government officials should be blamed for the abduction of school girls in Chibok.

Eguridu made the statement in Abuja at the stakeholders meeting held by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan to find solution to the abduction issue that is currently on ground.

He said that WAEC had been silent because it did not want to heat up the abduction issue by creating tension between the federal and the state government adding that on several occasions, he encouraged workers to go to Borno, Adamawa or Yobe after they had refused to conduct  examinations that there was adequate security in the states.

Vanguard reports:

“I wrote to the Minister of Education to ask for the relocation of students to sit for their examinations in the state capitals in safe locations.

“The minister in turn wrote to the three governors but none of them responded; then I directed my zonal coordinator in Borno in particular, to liaise with the Ministry of Education in that state.

“The response they got was so disheartening; they were told that they had security in place for the candidates and that we should come and conduct the examinations in the schools.

“They also said that they are not ready to relocate their students from Chibok; and indeed other areas to Maiduguri or nearby locations, where security agencies could provide security,’’ he said.

He noted that after the abduction of the girls, the WAEC officials got a response from Borno government that it was ready to relocate the remaining students to another place called Uba.

He said 530 students applied to sit for the examinations in the area comprising 395 girls and 135 boys; adding that after the abduction, 189 were relocated to Uba to continue their examinations.

However, Hajiya Nana Shettima, the wife of the Borno governor wife, said 53 girls had returned safely to their parents.

 

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