The Secondary Education Management Board, SEMB, Abia State, and the Examination Development Center, EDC, have refuted claims that their monitoring teams frequently enter schools during exams in order to collect money from school officials.
According to Ucheoma Kanu, the director of the Examination Development Center (EDC) in Umuahia, no school is required to compensate monitoring officers financially.
“Even if ten different teams come to your school, it is your duty as a school to just let them finish their work and go. Nothing should be given to anyone,” Kanu declared.
In a similar vein, the Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB) denied the allegations, stating that its teams use cars rather than tricycles as claimed.
The Director in charge, Ngozi Ugo Onwubiko, clarified in a statement released through D. N. Onuoha, SEMB’s Head of Information and Public Relations, that SEMB has no supervisory authority over private schools.
Our sole responsibility is to supervise state-run public secondary schools.
“Even during exams, we don’t attend private schools. The statement said, “Any suggestion to the contrary is untrue and deceptive.”
Following rumors that several monitoring teams from the Ministry of Education, local government education authorities, SEMB, and other organizations had broken into private schools during exams in order to collect money, the clarifications were made.
According to some reports, up to four teams might show up in a single day, occasionally barging into exam rooms and requesting “settlements,” among other things.
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