Parents and students on Wednesday expressed mixed feelings on the alleged scrapping of the National Examination Council (NECO).
The Federal Government had resolved to scrap some of its agencies in line with recommendations of the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.
Mr Akin Amugiri, a parent said in Abuja that the plan to scrap NECO would hamper the smooth foundation already laid down in the education sector.
"Instead of having the monopoly of West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), the coming of NECO has helped to bring about a new reign.
"It helped to expand the space for candidates who wish to write examination at that level to have an alternative.
"It has provided an alternative rather than just one single examination body and it has created that multiplicity, inclusion and hope to candidates who want to gain admission into university," he said.
Amugiri said the scrapping of NECO would be like returning to status quo, where people would wait for a long time before results would be released.
According to him, "I think the best way is to fashion out ways of making NECO work better than an outright scrapping."
He noted that before the scrapping of NECO, other plans should be put in place to give hope to candidates at that level.
He said ,"WAEC as the name implies belongs to the entire West African region and Nigeria's education system cannot be the same in every country.
He said that Nigeria had not got its education sector right, adding that "until the country gets there, NECO should not be scrapped.
"We still need organisations like NECO to help us reflect the peculiarity of our situation as a nation."
Another parent, Mrs Edith Okafor, however, said that the scrapping of NECO was a good initiative.
According to her, NECO is a duplication of WAEC efforts. I see WAEC as a wide sphere than NECO and more authentic
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