Daily Trust (Abuja)
7 February 2008
The refusal of the Cross River State government to enroll her secondary school students for NECO examination or recognize its certificate for admission into state-owned tertiary institutions has brought the national examination body under the spotlight.
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Nigerian is always interested in prophylactic measures instead of causative measures. Have they ever give it a second thought their insistence on recognising paper certificates and not the intellect? Or perhaps have they for once realised that survival have becomes a means to an end? The very day a policeman will take his eyes off bribe, the very day a politician will not see a political post as a means of survival that will be the day the problem will stop. Those calling for the eradication of the scourge knows how to tackle it. The atrocities perpetrated in and outside halls is lesser than the one perpetrated inside these examination bodies. Let them remove the log in their eyes before coming out to remove the little in the eyes of some people. Can a poorman's son commit the crime? it is those who believe that Nigeria belongs to them are the main culprits. If they want to curb the trend, they must start from the top and remove the immunity clause from anybody's head then the real war shall begin.