Lagos Cabinet: I Can’t Access My WAEC Certificate - Sanwo-Olu’s Nominee

One of the cabinet nominees of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Mrs Abolaji Dada, has told the 16-man screening ad hoc committee of the Lagos State House of Assembly that she does not have access to her West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) certificate.

Fielding questions from members of the committee on Friday, Dada, who is the ninth nominee to be screened, said she sat for WAEC in 1984 and that no certificate was issued in that particular year.

The nominee was a former Executive Secretary of Apapa Local Government and also one of the 25 nominees forwarded to the parliament by the executive.

She said: “I had my WAEC exam in a government school so I felt it would not be difficult to access it, but I eventually made efforts to retrieve my certificate when the need arose but was told that my school’s data was not captured.

“My claim can be verified, 1984 WAEC certificate for my school was not accessible.”

Dada, however, canvassed that certain revenue generating functions should be shed off from the state to the local government to enhance the capacity of the councils.

She also stressed that if eventually posted to the Ministry of Education as her assigned portfolio, she would work at “restoring civic education in the primary school curriculum so as to make the pupils patriotic, well behaved and well-mannered in the society.”