Ekiti Parents Threaten Protest Over Common Entrance Exam

Some parents in Ekiti State have threatened to protest the failure of their wards in the last common entrance examination into secondary schools in the state and the manner the examination was conducted by the state Ministry of Education.

The parents said the last examination, which was written on July 1 and July 3, recorded mass failure and that the results were unnecessarily delayed.

This, according to them, has generated tension in public and private primary schools in the state.

They therefore are demanding a thorough investigation from Governor Biodun Oyebanji, asking him to set up a panel of inquiry on what they described as “the questionable mass failure in the examination,” while also calling for audit and re-marking of the pupils’ answer scripts.

This was a trending and serious discussion in public and private schools in Ado Ekiti and nearby towns visited by our correspondent as parents are spoiling for a showdown with the ministry on the alleged mishandling of examination by the authority in charge.

Schools in the state resumed on Tuesday, September 17 and the result was released on the day of resumption, the parents wondered that the results ought to have been released before resumption to enable the pupils to know their situation.