Mother and father in Kano State have expressed frustration over the non-refund of their kids’s qualifying examination charges by the Kano Instructional Useful resource Division (KERD) Qualifying Unit.
The charges, initially paid as ₦26,500 for the 2024 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and Nationwide Examinations Council (NECO) exams, have been reportedly speculated to be refunded after the state authorities settled the funds.
Talking to journalists on behalf of the affected mother and father, Muhammad Bello Yusuf described their plight.
“The governor, His Excellency Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, graciously settled the examination charges for all eligible college students within the state. Nonetheless, regardless of this intervention, KERD has did not refund the charges that folks like us had already paid prematurely,” he stated.
Yusuf additional lamented the monetary burden this has prompted for a lot of households. “Mother and father are struggling to make ends meet in these tough financial occasions. We anticipated the refund to ease a few of our monetary pressures, however seven months have handed, and there’s no phrase from KERD,” he added.
Ado Muhammad Tiga, a father of two, reiterated Yusuf’s issues, calling on the state authorities to intervene and make sure the refunds are processed with out additional delay.
“I’ve two kids, and I struggled to settle their funds. We thank Almighty God that the state governor paid for our kids’s charges, however KERD’s Qualifying Unit has but to refund our cash, even after seven months,” he said.
He added, “It is a query of accountability and belief. We belief the federal government to behave in the perfect curiosity of its individuals, and we hope this matter can be resolved quickly.”
Will probably be recalled that in June final 12 months, the Kano State Authorities permitted the disbursement of ₦2,910,682,780 to cowl the 2024 NECO and Nationwide Board for Arabic and Islamic Research (NBAIS) charges for 119,903 underprivileged college students who couldn’t afford the bills.
The then Commissioner for Training, Umar Doguwa, revealed this growth throughout a media briefing in Kano. He clarified that any pupil who obtained no less than 4 credit in any topic in the course of the qualifying examinations (mock) within the state could be eligible for registration.
Doguwa emphasised that the choice stemmed from Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s concern for college kids going through monetary challenges, aiming to stop them from lacking out on essential instructional alternatives.
Talking on the matter, the Qualifying Examination Coordinator on the Kano Instructional Useful resource Division (KERD), Malam Lawan Kibiya, said that folks who haven’t acquired alerts confirming their refunds ought to direct their inquiries to the secondary faculties the place the registration charges have been initially paid, as the problem could not originate from KERD.
“I can affirm that KERD has refunded 100% of the qualifying examination charges to oldsters. If anybody has not acquired the refund, it’s probably resulting from points with the secondary faculty the place the fee was made or probably delays attributable to the latest system upgrades in business banks,” Malam Lawan defined.
He urged affected mother and father to lodge their complaints on the KERD Qualifying Unit for additional help.
“We’re nonetheless receiving complaints on this regard, and our doorways stay open to oldsters who haven’t acquired their refunds for the 2024 qualifying examination charges,” he assured.
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