WAEC to Finance Minister: Go back to secondary school


 
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has offered the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, free chance to resit her secondary school mathematics examinations after her gaffe during budget defence at the National Assembly last week.
 
Adeosun had alleged in her presentation to the Senate that one of the examination bodies in the country made N16 billion from sale of forms and other services, and got additional N6billion from the federal government, bringing the total to ‘N24billion’ yet remitted only N2million to the federation account.
 
Reacting to the minister’s gaffe, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, registrar of WAEC, not only faulted the minister on the allegation, but also offered her chance to have another go in secondary school mathematics given her wrong summation of the figures.
 
Uwadiae said: “It's not enough to go to the Senate and reel out figures. The minister should know that what Nigerian students pay to sit for WAEC examinations is simply an operational/management cost, that covers registration, data keeping and management, printing of examination papers, logistics, marking of scripts and production of certificates. And all these cost about N16 billion Naira.
 
“WAEC examination is not designed as a revenue generating source for the Federal Government. 
 
"In fact governments in the past subsidised the examination fees, just to encourage education. 
 
"The N6 billion she talked about is for payment of salaries and overheads for staff of the council.
 
“However, we do not know the mathematical formula the Honourable Minister used when she said the summation of N16 billion Naira and N6 billion Naira was N24 billion Naira.
 
“I think somebody needs to resit her WAEC mathematics examination. And we in WAEC have offered to give her a free WAEC form in this respect.”
 
Adeosun has come under heavy criticism for poor performance since her appointment as Minster of Finance with some calling for her resignation following the 2016 budget fiasco and the crash of the Naira.

Reaction: This is what you get when you nominate your girlfriend to your brainless boss to be a stooge instead of choosing on merit. This minister is one inexperienced and inefficient mistake too many

Let the incompetent woman resign. It will be an honor for her.

Ooh pulesssse! It has not gotten to that level of personalized attacks on people. Telling a minister to go sit for WAEC examination just becos she made an error is not acceptable.

We all make errors when talking. I've seen Professors and Vice Chancellors goofing while delivering speeches and no one has asked them to prove their degrees.

The minister obviously made an error suming up out of visible anger. She did well as not to name the exam body unlike what the registrar is doing

bigtt76:
Ooh pulesssse! It has not gotten to that level of personalized attacks on people. Telling a minister to go sit for WAEC examination just becos she made an error is not acceptable.

We all make errors when talking. I've seen Professors and Vice Chancellors goofing while delivering speeches and no one has asked them to prove their degrees.

The minister obviously made an error suming up out of visible anger. She did well as not to name the exam body unlike what the registrar is doing

You are right in some of your takes here, but because you have little or nothing on the woman you can not make a good judgement on the girlfriend turned minister. Was she not instrumental to making Ogun state a financial mess through debt and corruption? What experience does she have in economic matters? Please read more on her to know who you are defending, someone who is fostered on Nigeria to be a stooge

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Well, no one is above mistakes. The minister probably made the mistake coz billions were involved. you see, it is easier performing arithmetic operations with mere numbers than it will be when quantities are involved.

Nigerians always look for ways to fault someone.

As for the WAEC boss, i think his statement of asking her to resit WAEC is an insult on her person especially for a mistake that was not premeditated