S/W PTA Appeals FG To Slash Boarding School Fees

A clarion call has gone to the Federal Government to direct a downward slash of boarding school fees as an astronomical increase in school fees will adversely affect children’s welfare. The appeal came from the Unity Schools Parents-Teachers’ Association Chairmen Forum, South-West Zone.

The Forum made the appeal in a statement jointly signed by its Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Lukuman Adekilekun, and Zonal Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel Onyenuche, among others, on Friday, OSUN DEFENDER gathered.

The statement also extended its warm welcome to the newly appointed Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, and the Minister of State for Education, Tanko Sununu.

The statement reads: “Permit us to bring these issues of great concern to the entire parents as it affects the astronomical increase in the boarding fees. We see this development as a conduit pipe to further impoverish the parents who are already swimming in the ocean of the present oil subsidy removal with its attendant economic hardship.

“We, therefore, solicit your intervention by directing downward a slash in the boarding fees since the Federal Government has been subsidising this item as it has a direct effect on our children’s welfare.

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“As representatives of parents whose children attend unity schools, we are deeply troubled by the potential adverse effects of the proposed increase in fees and levies on the masses, particularly during these times of economic hardship, marked by the recent surge in fuel prices.”