The operators have started lobbying Ministry of Education officials to discourage the Prof Kate Omenugha ,Commissioner for Education from such exercise but unknown to them that Prof Omenugha is carrying out an explicit instruction from the state Governor , Chief Willie Obiano.
A stakeholder of the Private schools in Anambra where most of the existing centers are located but who would not want to be named said,’’ since the announcement we have been up beat on what to do because that is the major source of income to majority of these private centers including my own before I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
‘’I am even confused on how to make restitution of the evils against humanity because majority of our graduates in flying colours could not make a simple sentence yet their results are A’s and B’s. We are killing education and not helping it as we had taught. I am in support of the clamp down but the Governor must be set to fight it or the officials in the ministry who are neck deep in it would sabotage that’’.
Prof Omenugha had announced that no fewer than 486 magic examination centres identified in Anambra State are to be shutdown by the state government as part of official measures to curb examination malpractices in the education sector.
The state Commissioner for Education, Prof Kate Omenugha, who gave the hint during the 10th anniversary of St. Joseph Academic Award for 2014, said these examination miracle centres had been aiding and abetting examination malpractices especially during West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) examinations.
Prof Omenugha, while commending the founder of St. Joseph Academic Award, Mr. Bath Nwibe said the decision to shutdown the magic centres was induced by the way their operators fashioned them to swindle unsuspecting but desperate candidates.
Her words: “We have government schools and approved private schools that are saddled with the responsibility of training our children to become functional members of our society. But with the emergence of these miracle centres, our children no longer study to pass examinations; rather they go to those places where they will be helped to pass examinations.
‘’ We have set plans in motion to ensure that those examination miracle centres are closed down so that our children would imbibe the spirit and culture of success through hard-work.”
Mr. Nwibe, an engineer, noted that the award was instated to ensure that the human resources given to the youths were guided to become real assets to the society.
“This is by guiding them to develop the habit of hard-work early in life and thus, get good education that will form the launch pad for their growth and development in other areas,”
He pledged willingness to partner with the state government in the area of enlarging the foundation to the state level, “while we continue in extending succour to the beneficiaries.”
