WAEC 2017 RELEASED: ZAMFARA'S STUDENTS WAITING- Zamfara Circle

By: Ibrahim Bello Zauma

A youths movement in Zamfara State, that's struggling for the betterment of the State's affairs standard, i.e. Zamfara Circle, have reacted on the nonpayment of WAEC 2017 fees for the students of public schools in Zamfara State. In a statement shared by it's State Vice Chairman, Malam Ibrahim Bello Zauma says:
"As the 2017 WAEC results started to hit screens, Zamfara State's students awaiting result are getting strong pulmonary thumping with the fear that theirs may not be forth-coming anytime soon like the previous results.

This is indeed worrying because the delay in the settlement of SSCE fees to the examination bodies in the last six years of Shehi's administration has cost Zamfara a terrible educational loss. Many a secondary school leavers could not further their education for years.

While the children of the common men are being educationally stagnated albeit deliberately and their little learning exploited to serve the people who persecuted them by making them their ''social media campaigners'', their own children are enrolled in the best of schools, exposed to the best of instructions using best instructional materials in the most conducive environment.

There is no reason this time around to misplace priority again or delay the payment of the fees on flimsy grounds. It is in our living memory how from 2014 to 2016 the SSCE results were made to hang in the world of unknown for a long time overlapping academic sessions in the tertiary institutions within which they could enroll and continue with their education. Alas! Time elapsed in futility! Some of these youths, victims of insensitivity end up roaming the streets, some getting into drug abuse and become social nuisance.

The state government should not allow the painful history to repeat itself. We have had enough of this tragedy and we expect no more reverse gear in this journey of life. Our state have already made a stinking history of having 1000000 (One Million) out of the the total of 7000000 (Seven Million) out of school children in Nigeria! (UNICEF 2013). More recently, the HILWA 2016 statistics shows that the percentage of out-of-school children hits about 76% while the pupil teacher ration is 50:1."

Zauma added that: "Our plea is that His Execellency #GovernorYari should look into this issue promptly with the view to saving the future of our sons daughters and brothers, so that they can further their education and stay off streets.
#ReclaimZamfara".