What Buhari said while receiving his WAEC certificate
President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, in Abuja received the attestation
and confirmation of his 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC)
Examination result from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
The documents were presented to the President at State House during a
courtesy visit by a delegation of WAEC led by its Registrar, Dr Iyi
Uwadiae, accompanied by Olutise Adenipekun, Head, National Office, WAEC,
Abiodun Aduloju, Head Public Affairs, WAEC and Olufemi Oke, Zonal
Coordinator, WAEC Abuja.
The President thanked the examination board, established in 1952, and
which conducts the WASC examination for University and JAMB entry
examination in West African countries, for upholding its integrity over
the years, adding that he did not expect anything less from the
institution.
He said it would have been impossible for him to have attended the
Defence Services Staff College, India (1973) and thereafter, United
States Army War College, as a Nigerian military officer, if he didn’t
sit for the WASC examinations in 1961.
Buhari recounted that during his secondary school days, it was very
difficult to commit examination fraud, even though it was not
impossible.
”My colleagues and I who spent close to nine years in boarding school
both in primary and secondary, including Gen. Musa Yar’Adua, when we
intended to join the military we had to take a military examination.
”We were examined in three subjects, English, Mathematics and General
Knowledge because English is the language for general instruction
throughout the country because of our colonial heritage.
”Mathematics in the military was necessary, coupled with Geography. We
were trained how to be dropped off in the bush, given only a pair of
compass and since we were not astronomers, you have to learn to find
your way, calculate, using the Pythagoras Theorem and others to work out
your position,” he said.
In his remarks, the Registrar said it was possible for candidates to
lose their examination certificates through fire and any other
unfortunate incident.
”We don’t issue certificates twice but we can issue attestations or duplicate copy of the certificate.
”We also have what we refer to as confirmation; usually, universities
were using this in those days when Information Technology was not in
vogue.
”Whoever sat for WASC exams in whatever year, we have the records in our
database, and Mr President, we have the records of the examinations you
sat in 1961.
”We have the attestation of results which we issue to candidates who
lost their certificates and confirmation of results,’’ Dr Uwadiae said.
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