Shekarau blames past governors for mass examination failure
Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau,
has blamed the poor performance of students in 2010 NECO and WAEC
examinations to the neglect of education by past governments in the
country. sAddressing members of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation in
the Americas (NIDOA), New Jersey chapter, at a town hall meeting in
Newark, U.S., the governor said the situation was more pathetic, given
that it touched on the future of the country. He noted that most of the
current leaders attended public schools, which have now been left to
degenerate.
Shekarau equally criticised some of his
colleagues whom he said sacked teachers, claiming they could not afford
to pay their huge wage bill, but used the money to award contracts that
were never executed.
“The problem now is, if you neglect education for too long, usually
it takes you three times or five times longer to rectify. Tell those
that need to hear, to give our children better education, as this is
the future of Nigeria,” he said.
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