By Stephen Adeleye

The Kogi State Government has expressed satisfaction with the process and conduct of the 2020 Common Entrance Examination (CEE) across the state.

The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones, FCIB, made the remark on Saturday while speaking with newsmen after he led a team to monitor the conduct of the 2020 CEE in some centres in Lokoja.

Represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Pastor Emmanuel Idenyi, the Commissioner also commended the candidates and exam officials for their compliance with the safety protocols against COVID-19 pandemic during the exam.

“The processes and conduct of today’s common entrance examination is quite impressive in all the centres we visited; pupils are well behaved and we are satisfied”, he said.

According to him, the activities for the CEE’s conduct right from data generation, printing of question papers, collection of materials and movement to various centres have been very successful.

He added that the report they were getting from officials who monitored other local government areas, showed that there was no short of questions, no crisis whatsoever, saying, ”it is satisfactory”.

He commended the supervisors and other exam officials for ensuring orderliness and compliance with the COVID-19 safety protocols during the exam.

Earlier while addressing the pupils at Saint Luke primary School, Andankolo, the Commissioner admonished them to be of good conduct during the exam and shun any form of examination malpractice.

He warned that Government would not tolerate any act of cheating in the exam, urging them to be confident of themselves and prayed God to see them through.

A Supervisor in charge of Saint Luke Primary School, Andankolo centre, Mrs Naomi Onoja, told NAN that the conduct of 2020 CEE in Kogi, was a huge success to the glory of God.

”This year’s CEE is very well organised, we arrived very early and there is no short of question papers. We have pupils from 11 schools that will write exam in this centre”, she said.

A pupil from Koggie Academic, Fatimat Albdulraheem; and another, Olusegun Levi from UMCA Primary School, told NAN that they were happy to write the exam.

Other CCE centres visited included: Saint Mary Primary School, Lokongoma Primary School, Phase 1, and Army Day Secondary School, Barracks among others.

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  Hon Wemi Jones, Pastor Emmanuel Idenyi