Minister to sack principals over waec issues

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory
Muhammad Bello has read the riot act to
principals of all secondary school in the
territory.
In his meeting with the principals in Abuja, Bello
mandated all schools to attain a 50% success
in the African Examination Council (WAEC) and
National Examination Council (NECO) in the
next academic year.
Represented by the FCT permanent secretary
Babatope Ajakaiye, the minister said, the 30
percent success recorded in 2016 WAEC and
NECO in FCT schools is no longer acceptable.
The minister said: “The mandate I will give you
that goes with sanction; for this new session,
every principal must be determined that for
WAEC and NECO in 2017, any principal that
does not achieve 50 percent success should
just quietly leave that school because the
principal is going to be removed.”
He said if students do not attain this pass level
the principals will be penalized.
“If you don’t achieve 50 percent success in
WAEC and NECO 2017, you are no longer fit to
be a principal in FCT and I mean it. That is the
minimum that we want for every school and you
must work towards it,” Bello said.
Bello further warned that the FCT
Administration will no longer accept excuses of
poor infrastructure or inadequate teachers.
He said called on all school principals to do all
it takes to ensure that the situation is reversed
completely.
“We want the success rate to change. That is
very important. We cannot be gathering
students and at the end of their final year, all
they will have is three credits. I don’t know
whether you are proud as a principal that in
your school, the success rate is five percent,”
he said.
Bello also warned principals against charging
illegal fees on students especially when
provisions have already been made through the
FCT Secondary Education Board to run these
schools.
He any principal found wanted in such act
would be sanctioned by the FCTA.
Bello said: “My mission is not to come and
make you sad; but the situation is bad and you
know it and we are ready to tackle it. But you
must be up and doing too and that is why I said
I must call all the principals and talk to you to
do the right things.”
“That is what this administration is about. We
are ready to put the right things in place. We
are ready to work for Nigeria. But we want
people that will join us to do this. That is why
when you come to FCT today, it is not business
as usual and we want to send that message
down to our institutions,” he said.
On Wednesday, August 31, the FCT minister
announced a change in the resumption date of
schools in Abuja.
The minters said the first term would begin on
Sunday, September 18 – boarding students –
and Monday, September 19 for the day
students.
The schools were earlier scheduled to resume
on Sunday, September 4 for boarding students
and Monday, September 5.