IgbereTV reports that Governor Bello Matawalle said on Sunday in Gusau that the Zamfara Government has paid N200 million examination fees owed the National Examinations Council to facilitate the release of students’ results.
NECO had witheld the results of thousands of secondary school students following the non-payment of their registration fees by the state government after promising to do so.
During a ceremony to welcome new entrants into his party, the PDP, Governor Matawallw said that the measure was to ensure the release of the results to enable the students to further their education.
He said, “My predecessors made the commitment to pay the fees, but failed to do so. We have decided to pay in the interest of the students.” He said that government had also paid workers’ salaries “in spite of the fact that we inherited a zero account from the last government and a mass of debts.” He asked Zamfara residents to continue to be peaceful and law abiding.
Also during the occassion, 21,000 members of the APC, mostly from the governor’s Maradun Local Government, defected to the ruling PDP. The defectors were jointly received by Matawalle and the state PDP Chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Mallaha. They were assured of being treated fairly and equally like other party members.
