Amosun pays N496m WAEC debts as Ogun monthly wage bill hits N9bn

It will be recalled that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) threatened on Monday to withhold results of all the students from 19 states of the federation who wrote the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in May/June 2015 if their governors failed to pay up all the debts owing WAEC.

Speaking at the swearing-in of the State transition committee chairmen of the 20 Local Councils, held in Abeokuta on Wednesday, Governor Amosun declared that the state “is no more owing the West African Examination Council (WAEC)”, saying he had approved the payment of a sum of N496million initially being owed the examination body on Tuesday this week.

While expressing that that government at all levels have lately been ‎plunged into financial pit and the need for political office holders to think out of the box towards meeting statutory responsibilities, said that the enrolment figures in schools had increased tremendously over the years, hence, there is a huge expense on education development and free provision of education.Governor Amosun, who explained that his government had built more than 2,000 classrooms since inception to cater for the rising level of schools’ enrolment, confirmed that the State wage bill, including workers’ salarie‎s, pensions, tertiary institutions’ subventions and utilities, had increased to N9 billion monthly.