Students defy IPOB sit-at-home to write WAEC exam in Enugu
Despite the sit-at-home order in the southeast by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), students writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Enugu State on Thursday, May 30, sat for the Mathematics exam.
The secessionist group had insisted that sit-at-home would be observed in the region on Thursday, as a way to honour those who died during the Civil War between 6 July 1967 and 15 January 1970.
But, our correspondent who monitored development in some parts of the state, observed that all the secondary schools, including private ones, in the state had their students sit for the waec exams without disturbance.
At Akpugo High School, Akpugo, and Model Comprehensive Secondary School, Agbani in Nkanu West local government area of Enugu State, the exam started at 9.30 am with all registered students writing the examination.
The principal of the school, Egbo Martina Ifeyinwa, told our correspondent that there had been no challenge of any kind except the fact that some students who lived kilometres away, had to sleep within the village.
They had to do that to enable them to meet up with the exam time. But, those who live nearby didn’t have any problem coming to the school for the exam”, she said.
The principal however lauded the vigilante operatives, otherwise known as the neighbourhood watch, for patrolling around the school to check on them.
Also, the principal of Model Comprehensive Secondary School, Agbani, Agbo Chimobi C., principal, commended the state for ensuring that schools in the rural areas were not left at the mercy of the sit-at-home enforcers.
