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| WAEC blasts Kemi Adeosun, the bumbling Nigeria's Finance Minister. Offers her free form to resit mathematics |
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has offered the Minister of
Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, free chance to resit her mathematics exams
after her gaffe during budget defence at the National Assembly last
week.
Adeosun had alleged that one of the exams body in the country made N16
billion from sale of forms and other services, and got additional
N6billion from the federal government bringing the total to ‘N24billion’
yet remitted only N2million to the federation account.
Reacting to the minister’s gaffe, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, registrar of WAEC,
not only faulted the minister on the allegation, but also offered her
chance to have another go in maths given the poor summation of the
figures.
Uwadiae said: “It's not enough to go to the Senate and reel out figures.
The minister should know, that what Nigerian students pay to sit for
WAEC examinations is simply an operational/management cost, that covers
registration, data keeping and management, printing of examination
papers, logistics, marking of scripts and production of certificates.
And all these cost about N16 billion Naira.
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| Adeosun failed basic arithmetics when she stated that 16b +6b =24b |
“WAEC examination is not designed as a revenue generating source for the
Federal Government. In fact governments in the past subsidized the
examination fees, just to encourage education. The N6 billion she talked
about is for payment of salaries and overheads for staff of the
council.
“However, we do not know the mathematical formula the Honourable
Minister used, when she said the summation of N16 billion Naira and N6
billion Naira was N24 billion Naira.
“I think somebody needs to resit her WAEC mathematics examination. And
we in WAEC have offered to give her a free WAEC form in this respect.”
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