The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has conducted the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Chibok local government of Borno State, six years after the Boko Haram terrorists abducted over 200 schoolgirls of the Government Girls’ Secondary School Chibok on April 14, 2014.
The general officer commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Khalifa Ibrahim, disclosed this while receiving members of the Education in Emergency Working Group (EiEWG) Nigeria yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Schools in Chibok were shut down in 2014 after Boko Haram insurgents abducted more than 200 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in the area.
While the federal government has secured the release of 107 of the girls, a few others are still in the custody of the insurgents.
“It will be gladdening to note that for the first time in the past six years, WAEC successfully held WASSCE in Chibok with the military providing security,” he said.
“We are all witnesses to what happened in the recent past like the abduction of the Chibok girls, the slaughtering of students at Buni Yadi and abduction of students at Dapchi. These are all that happened and we have turned around that narrative.
“Let me equally say that the chief of army staff has been making deliberate efforts through the education corps to post teachers to all schools within the north-east states.
“We are really doing enough to ensure that education is resuscitated and as we all know, education is one thing that liberates the individual and liberates the minds. In the first place, this conflict would not have thrived if not that there was high illiteracy rate in this zone.”
