Malami’s billions for WAEC fees, by Suleiman A. Suleiman
But when just two public institutions rake in nearly a hundred billion naira annually from parents for the conduct of examinations alone, we must ask the serious question of whether conducting exams is a national service or a revenue generating business.
Therefore, the policy fits into a recurring pattern in which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government announces policies without taking into account the political and economic sensitivity of what they are doing before going public.
The state cannot, in good conscience, be asking ordinary citizens to cough out more money to educate their children while at the same time opportunities exist for public officials to personally extract properties to the equivalent value of N212 billion.
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