The Founder of Opeyemi David Falegan Foundation, Hon. Opeyemi David Falegan has recently expressed worries over the recent surge in tuition fees at public secondary schools in the country.
The founder described the rising school fees as harsh, intolerable, wicked and abominable development not only as anti-poor and anti-people but also as an oppressive measure that threatens the fundamental right to quality education.
“Even more distressing are the fees for federal government secondary like Nigeria Army command schools and Nigerian Navy Secondary schools and federal unity schools.”
He described the new fee regime as not only outrageous, but inconsiderate of the economic situation in the country.
“The new fees, as seen on the federal government schools’s portal, range from N250,000 to N300, 000 depending on the schools .
“Falegan condemns the new fee hike and insists that the decision is callous, unjustifiable and anti-poor. A new fee hike whether for new intakes or returning students will no doubt compound the economic woe of parents and guardians.
“It is evident that the country is currently at a critical time when mass of the Nigeria working people are still grappling without any end in sight, with the rising cost of living side by side several other multifaceted economic challenges largely occasioned by the decision of President Bola Tinubu to hike the price of petrol, under the pretense of subsidy removal. This is amidst several other pro-capitalist and anti-working people’s policies like devaluation of the naira.” He said.