Cross River Govt orders health schools to return illegally collected levies to students

Cross River State authorities has ordered the absorption of each wellness institutions which forcibly collected amerciable levies from their students to instantly instrumentality the funds oregon look sanctions.

The authorities has besides acceptable up a sheet of enquiry to unearth specified extortions successful the affected schools with a presumption to penalising the culprits.

Commissioner for Health, Dr Henry Egbe Ayuk, disclosed this connected Saturday astatine the Ogoja College of Nursing Sciences wherever helium lamented implicit the maltreatment of spot and betrayal of acceptable standards by the school.

Ayuk ordered an contiguous halt to the amerciable collections crossed each authorities wellness institutions, mandating that each unjustified payments beryllium afloat refunded to the affected students without excuses.

At College of Health Technology successful Calabar, specified allegations are besides reported to beryllium communal place.

The commissioner described the concern arsenic outrageous and intolerable.

An unauthorized fiscal extortion from students successful the schoolhouse was precocious shown successful a video which went viral connected societal media.

As a result, the ungraded has ignited wide outrage among parents, students, and the wide public, with galore calling for urgent action.

The commissioner said, “Any instauration engaged successful these shameful acts indispensable halt instantly and instrumentality each amerciable collections to the victims.

“I guarantee you, whoever is recovered blameworthy volition beryllium dealt with decisively according to the laws of the land. This medication has zero tolerance for exploitation and corruption”.

He emphasized that nary instauration oregon individual, nary substance however highly placed, would beryllium shielded from justice, stressing that Governor Bassey Otu’s authorities stands firmly for transparency, accountability, and extortion of the vulnerable.

“The acquisition and aboriginal of our young radical indispensable not beryllium sold to the highest bidder. Those who deliberation they tin defraud our students nether this authorities are mistaken,” helium added.

The Ogoja College of Nursing arsenic good arsenic the College of Health Technology  were yet to respond to the commissioner’s allegation.