The 2023 PDP Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Celebration, Atiku Abubakar, has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s Federal Govt for the 18-year day prohibit on NECO and WAEC checks, calling it absurd and a barrier to scholarships.
Recall that the Federal Govt has blocked folks underneath 18 from taking part within the NECO and WAEC checks.
This used to be perceptible by means of the Minister of Training, Prof. Tahir Mamman, all through his look on Channels Tv’s ‘ Sunday Politics’ program.
Mamman mentioned that the government has suggested WAEC, accountable for the West African Senior Faculty Certificates Exam, and NECO, which administers the Senior Faculty Certificates Exam, to put into effect the 18-year day requirement for applicants taking those checks.
In reaction, the previous Vice President took to his verified Fb web page on Wednesday to criticize the coverage as old-fashioned.
Atiku labelled the coverage as debatable and known as for common condemnation from those that worth highbrow independence and accessibility.
He mentioned, “Tinubu’s coverage on day prohibit for tertiary schooling admission belongs within the Stone Ages.
“The new coverage of the Federal Ministry of Training pegging day limits for access to tertiary establishments is an absurdity and a disincentive to scholarship.
“The coverage runs foul of the perception of delineation of duties in a federal machine of presidency comparable to we’re practicing, and offers a evocative impact of ways the Tinubu govt behaves like a misplaced sailor on a top sea.
“Another way, how is such anti-scholarship legislation the upcoming logical step within the myriad of problems besetting our instructional machine?
“To be clear, the Nigerian constitution puts education in the concurrent list of schedules, in which the sub-national government enjoys more roles above the Federal Government.”
The previous Vice President highlighted that probably the greatest world manner is to permit sub-national governments to determine their schooling regulations or rules.
Atiku persevered, “Due to this fact, it’s extra-constitutional for the government to legislate on schooling like a decree.
“The most efficient world usual for such legislation is to permit the sub-national governments to put together respective regulations or regulations on schooling.
“It’s discouraging that even generation pronouncing this obnoxious coverage, the federal government inadvertently stated it had refuse plan to cater to specifically talented pupils. That observation is a humiliation to the frame of intellectuals within the nation as it portrays Nigeria as a rustic the place talented scholars don’t seem to be favored.
“The irony this is that are supposed to the government play games any function in schooling, it’s to arrange mechanisms that can establish and handover scholarships to talented scholars now not minding their ages ahead of making use of for admission into tertiary establishments.
“This controversial policy belongs in the Stone Ages and should be roundly condemned by everyone who believes in intellectual freedom and accessibility.”