By Bosco Bush
At least forty-three [43] candidates in Tonj North of Warrap State have missed the first paper of the Primary Eight [P.8] Certificate of Primary Examination due to an outbreak of communal violence in the areas.
Secretary General for National Examination Council [NEC], Simon Nyok Deng announced sad news in a press briefing.
According to Nyok, exam sheets were safely and successfully delivered to all designated locations and centers across the country, except for 43 pupils who were absent from their designated centers on Monday morning.
He said it’s the responsibility of NEC and relevant authorities to find the missing candidates and attend the paper by the end of the day.
“The report we got this morning is that all the children are ready to partake in the exams with exception of some cases where we will account by the end of the day of the precedents of some candidates because of communal violence somewhere in Tonj North and Warrap State,” he said.
“But we will make sure that all the candidates are reached, but we will have the full account by the end of today (Yesterday) that all the candidates have shown up for exams. They are about 43 candidates,” stressing that they are trying to locate them with “hope that they will show up for exams.”
On Monday, November 18, at least Seventy-Nine Thousand and Ten [79,010] candidates across the country started answering exam sheets for five subjects slated to run for five days from Monday to Friday, November 22.
Out of the Seventy-Nine Thousand and Ten total number, Forty-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-Five [43,235] are male. While, Thirty-Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-Five [35,735] are female, sitting in Five Hundred and Fifty-One [551] centers across the country.
The first examination subjects were Cristian Religion Education [CRE], and Islamic Religion.