IMO: Imo Lawmakers Moves to Stop Tertiary institution From Delaying of Results Of Graduating Students.
—-Urges Governor Uzodinma to Swift into action.
Emmanuel lkpeama.
Worried by the delay in releasing transcripts, certificates and statements of result of graduating students, the Imo State House Of Assembly has mandated all tertiary Institutions in the State to ensure that their graduating students are no longer subjected to undue and unwarranted delays in the processing and releases of the statements of result, transcripts and certificates.
In a motion by the Member Representing Ezinihitte Mbaise State Constituency, Hon Dr Henry Agbasonu, expressed sadness over what has become the”Culture Of Corruption” by Tertiary Institutions in Imo State in deliberately delaying the issuance of transcripts, statements of result and certificates to graduating students.
Hon Dr Agbasonu, who is the Chairman,House Committee on Education, while displaying his displeasure explained that the issue of result and certificate in Tertiary Institutions in Imo State has become very frustrating and demoralizing, which discourages new students from seeking admission into Tertiary Institutions in the State, due to corrupt tendencies where people intentionally make things difficult for others, in other to rip them of their resources.
According to him,”Some students may need to further their education in other Institutions, but face very difficult tasks in getting transcripts. Perhaps, they have done the needful in clearance, school fees etc, yet these Institutions make things difficult for them to have Transcripts and Results, due to unnecessary bureaucracy, which puts the beneficiary at risk of jeopardizing chances of meeting up with the deadline fixed by the prospective institutions and organizations. This has become terribly difficult for graduates to do their Masters and Post graduate courses, because of the difficulty it takes in having first degree certificates issued to them”.he submitted.
Hon Dr Agbasonu went further to state that from 2020 to 2023, the results of the pupils and students who sat for both Basic Education and Certificate Examination (BECE) and First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) are yet to be released, noting that both examinations are conducted by the Ministry Of Education, through the Examination Development Centre, EDC, noting that while BECE is an Examination written by JSS 3 students, FSLC is an Examination written by Primary 6 pupils.
He argued that the Ministry Of Education has no cogent reason to offer as explanation for the delay in releasing the results for four consecutive years from 2020 to 2023
“If the results are released today and it is discovered that some of the promoted JSS 3 students who are now in SS1, SS2 and SS3 failed their examination, will they come back to retake the JSS 3 exam?”
The Speaker and other Lawmakers thereafter beckoned on the Education-friendly Governor, His Excellency Senator Hope Uzodimma to direct the Ministry Of Education to do the needful to correct the anomaly by releasing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and First leaving School Certificate (FSLC) results of 2020 to 2023 respectively.
