57 Escapee Schoolgirls Suspend Writing Of NECO Exams..........

 
The 57 escapee Chibok schoolgirls have suspended sitting for the ongoing NECO examinations, following the decision of the state government to send them to private schools in some parts of the country, where they would repeat their final year classes, LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered.
The girls, who were once accommodated in one of the secondary schools in Maiduguri from where they joined other final year secondary school students to write the NECO exams, had since been relocated to a secured government facility in the state capital,contiune..........................
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One of the schoolgirls who spoke with LEADERSHIP on phone said, they have been asked to vacate the school dormitories where they were before to their present accommodation.
The schoolgirl, who sought anonymity on the grounds of being reprimanded by the officials of the government facility, said “They told us to be here now; and that we may no longer need to write the NECO exams because the governor said we would be transferred to some private schools in either Abuja, Lagos or Kaduna”.
According to the schoolgirl, though they were excited about the latest idea, they still feel unhappy as they would be one year behind their mates in other schools.
She said, “That was what we are told; that we would be taken to the cities to retake our SSS-3 (Senior Secondary School 3); and that the schools are better than the ones we were in Chibok. We are really excited about it but at the same time it means we are going to be a year behind our mates.
The girl said she and her colleagues are also sad that in spite of the efforts being made to rescue the rest of their mates from the Boko Haram captivity, none of them had been brought home.
She said, “We really don’t understand why our mates cannot be found and rescued up till now. Whatever government gives us now, cannot really make us happy because it was because they are still in the bush, that was why we are being given these kind of treatments. We believe that if  all of us had escaped that night, no one would have remembered us today. That is why we kept praying every night before we sleep that God should assist our soldiers and government to bring the other girls  back home because it is them that have spent so much time there in the bush that even deserve more attention”.
The Principal of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Mrs Asabe Kwambura, told LEADERSHIP Weekend on phone that, “The 57 abducted students that escaped captivity would not be taking the NECO exams because they will have to retake their classes, as directed by the state governor, but the 119 others students that were not abducted are still writing the exams”.
The principal added that the 57 girls have since finished taking the counselling lessons offered to them by the Interfaith Group from Kaduna and would be returning home to wait for their postings to their new schools.