EBONYI STATE GOVT SUSPENDS THE PROPOSED UNIFIED PROMOTION EXAMINATION FEES.

The Ebonyi State Executive Council in its weekly meeting resolved to suspend the proposed unified promotion Examination fee and directed that those who have made such payment should be refunded.
Salt FM correspondent takes a look at the readiness of the Head Teachers, Principals and the State government to refund the money to the payers.
The unified Examination is to ensure that standard is brought back to the educational sector as well as give rewards to teachers whose students excel in the examinations.
This perhaps may be the reason Ebonyi State government came up with a plan to introduce unified examination in the state but since it has been suspended, what are the payees doing to refund the money collected to the payers, Mrs. Nnenna Obasi is the principal Urban Model Secondary School, Abakaliki.
The vice principal, Administration, Abakaliki High School, Presco, Mrs. Christiana Okonkwo said the principal Mr. Donatus Ovuoba had informed the students of the development and was ever ready to refund the money to them.
Some parents who spoke to EBBC including Mrs. Cordelia Ogayi and Mr. Augustine Nwafor lauded the state government for taking such bold step.
A student of Abakaliki High School, Presco, Master Amos Mbam explained that the introduction of unified examination would have helped to enhance the standard of education in the state.
Other students including Master Chibuike Onele and Miss Favour Elliot also have these to say on the decision of the state government.
However, the state commissioner for Education, Professor John Eke said the decision to suspend unified examination fee was taken following the way some Head Teachers and Principal abused the programme.
On what government is doing to ensure that the principals and Head Teachers comply with the directive before the expiration of the seven days ultimatum, Professor Eke has this to say.
The commissioner said the present administration in the state under the leadership of Engr. David Nweze Umahi was committed to bettering the lots of Ebonyi people and warned that any principal or Head Teacher who fails to refund the money would be sanctioned.