Monday’s sit-at-home order has resulted in a monumental failure, after the students who were writing the West Africa Examination Council were reportedly chased away by suspected members of the proscribed IPOB in Comprehensive Secondary School Nkume, in Njaba local government area in Imo state.
Reports say that the boys came in large numbers, dispersing the students and the examiners on the ground by shooting sporadically into the air. The gunshots scared the students and made the students and examiners flee for fear of stray bullets. After the incident, the motorcycles of the teachers were set on fire. Today is marked for the English language exam, which is one of the compulsory subjects for students who are offering both science and arts subjects, depending on the course you wish to offer in your higher institution.
It was a bad experience for the examiners, students and the parents of the students who suffered untold bad experience today. The WASSCE examination is a yearly program conducted all over West Africa for the entrance into higher institutions to study any discipline of your choice. It’s a destiny exam that can help you achieve any desired goal in life. With WASSCE, you can get a good job in any established institution, both in the government and private sector.
The agitators didn’t reason that the South East youths were the ones involved and not their passive enemies. The destiny of the youths is what is at stake. The exams don’t have supplementary to make up for their required subjects to go on with their academic pursuit. What this means is that the students are going to waste another year to be able to sit for the same English subject.
Those who stopped the Igbo youths from talking about their exams have not done anything bad to perceived enemies but themselves. Since the cause for which the sit-at-home order was declared was assumed to be for the betterment of the southeast youths, how come the same youths you think you are fighting for their freedom are the ones at the receiving end? No right-thinking person would support this ugly trend. I believe those who carried out these activities were not sent by any authority, but chose to do this ugly act to reinforce the sit-at-home order to make it more popular to the detriment of the South East and the Igbo community at large.
What do you think about this? Don’t you think that those who decided to stop the Igbo youths from joining other Nigerians and West Africa at large in taking the mandatory English language are doing a favor for the Igbos or are they killing and destroying the destiny of the youths?
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