By Correspondent in Lokoja.
The Ebira Youth Congress (EYC) in Kogi Central Senatorial district of kogi state, has expressed concern over the low enrolment of students from the district for the 2022 internal Senior School Certificate Examinations called West African Examination Council(WAEC), due to financial incapacitation.
Mr Obiyo Ateiza Aliyu,
President-General, EYC, stated this in a statement he signed,a copy of which was made available to The Reporters in Lokoja on Thursday.
Aliyu,who described WAEC as a gateway certificate into the world of all levels of higher education and career added that the congress “is perturbed and held sway in operational principle” by the negative developmnt.
Painting the picture of the affected students, he said:”These affected candidates have become considerably distracted and emotionally taken aback as the grassroots bleats over the scary aura of such circumstance.
“Too sad a finding to reveal an all time record lowest of enrollment in history.
“This 2022 consequently triggered our push for immediate grassroots intervention to this effect as WAEC registration closure jingles in not too many days away.
“EYC beckons to our leaders of thought and very significantly, our intending political aspirants, to utilize this window of opportunity to practically display some level of responsibility to prove to the people whom they already claim to want to serve and show some love.”
“Education is the hallmark of development in our place, to think of how key is such exit certificate calls for urgent serious concern.
“You shall not be forgotten in a hurry for wading, in with rapt intervention, and hopefully enough, that posterity would be fair to your name.”
The Reporters gathered that it is a different ball game in other districts of the of the state, where grassroots interventions have assisted many students to realise their educational aspirations.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.