The former Chairman of the National Examination Council, Prof Abubakar Mohammed, has disclosed that government officials withdrew N6bn from the exam body’s account and are yet to make a refund.
Mohammed made this known while speaking at NECO’s first award ceremony in Minna, Niger State over the weekend.
He said the money was examination fees collected from candidates, adding that it is still a mystery how examinations were conducted afterwards.
Mohammed said; “The government, and especially some officials in the Ministry of Education, are out to sabotage the indigenous examination body. I don’t owe anyone an apology for my statement, some of these officials don’t want NECO to exist.
“The officials first withdrew the N6bn found in the accounts of NECO. To date, the money has not been returned and nobody even bothered to inform us what they did with the money.”
The ceremony had educationists and policymakers in attendance.
