Chief, Dumo Lulu-Briggs, the governorship candidate of Accord party in Rivers State has paid tuition fees for over 230 Students of the Rivers State University.
Dumo’s Special Adviser on media Nia’Bari Fakae disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the governorship hopeful, the responsibility of any government is to ensure that they educate the next generation
Part of his statement reads,
It is very unfortunate, it looks like there is a deliberate attempt to see that our children are not educated. You cannot come up with a policy like that just a week to examinations, you have to give the students time.
If they knew ahead of time that they won’t be able to write their exams without paying their school fees, they would have starting the “ragging”, trying to talk to uncles, aunts and interested persons in society to seek help. But instead you give your own children less than 72 hours to pay school fees otherwise they won’t be able to write exams. It looks like a deliberate policy to ensure that exams are not written by indigent students.”
The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, when we were younger, we all went to the same public schools, wether your father was a Permanent Secretary or not, we had the same teachers teach everybody. Now quality education can only be afforded privately, and then you come up with a policy that ensures that even the education cannot be obtained.
I think it is very unfortunate, and no government should allow this to happen, because the biggest responsibility of any government is to ensure that they educate the next generation. When you come up with policies that are unethical and not justifiable in any circumstance, it calls for concern. If the “No Fees No Exams policy”, was the policy of the school, I believe students would have known and made adequate preparations. If last year you were able to write exams without paying your fees, then the same thing should apply to you.
How do we even think of policies like this, and why would you not give parents who are suffering and struggling to put food on the table, time to be able to pay the school fees of their children, it is very unfortunate.
