Youth Rights Campaign Accuses Gov Sanwo-Olu Of Commercialising Education Over Hike In Lagos Model Colleges’ Feeding Fees

The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has condemned the caller hike successful feeding fees astatine Lagos Model Colleges from N35,000 to N100,000.

SaharaReporters earlier connected Sunday reported that parents of students attending the exemplary colleges had threatened that their children would boycott the schools implicit the caller hike successful boarding fees.

The parents, therefore, demanded the reversal of the hike successful boarding fees.

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According to the parents’ forum, their wards volition not resume for the caller world league until the hike successful boarding fees is reversed.

In a connection issued connected Saturday night, the Chairman of the Parents’ Forum of Lagos Model Colleges, Surv. Dapo Dawodu, lamented the “greed” down the increment.

He said, “We person witnessed, successful the past 24 hours, an avalanche of outpouring of utmost disdain, anguish and heavy vexation astatine the mindless and provocative 200% increment of boarding fees for our children, by the mindlessly corrupt officers of the Lagos State Ministry of Education!

“And it was astir unfortunate that the unbridled greed of these enemies of the bully radical of Lagos State (vide you the parents), were fixed their leeway by the headship of the ministry.

“To beryllium clear, the interest of N100,000 per term, erstwhile paid successful a schoolhouse of 1000 students, translates to N100million successful the purse of the schoolhouse main to provender the children wrong conscionable 3 months!”

In a property connection issued by Francis Nwapa, National Secretary YRC, the radical accused Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of being ‘insensitive’ and ‘shameless’ towards the existent economical realities facing Nigerians.

The connection reads: “The Nigeria capitalist ruling elites propulsion the consequences of the crises they created connected the poor. The Lagos State Government nether Babajide Sanwo-Olu is truthful shameless that they person continued to descend nationalist acquisition further beneath wherever Tinubu sank it portion arsenic politician of Lagos State.

“Tinubu has continued his illness of nationalist acquisition astatine the national level but afloat commercializing acquisition done his pupil indebtedness policy.

“Nigerian children merit escaped qualitative acquisition astatine each levels and bash not contradict them entree to education. All well-meaning Nigerians indispensable lend their voices to this effort to exclusively presumption acquisition for the affluent unsocial portion the children of the mediocre who signifier implicit 90% of Nigeria’s colonisation are denied entree to education.

“We cull acquisition commercialization. Education is simply a Right not a privilege.”

Parents of boarding students astatine Eva Adelaja Girls Grammar School successful Bariga, Lagos State, connected Sunday, protested against the interest hike.

The schoolhouse is 1 of the exemplary colleges successful the state.

The parents stormed the schoolhouse area, chanting slogans and demanding the contiguous reversal of the interest hike.

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