The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has accused the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of commercializing education by approving hike in feeding fees at Lagos Model Colleges from N35,000 to N100,000.
This is contained in a press statement issued by Francis Nwapa, the National Secretary of YRC.
The insisted that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is being ‘insensitive’ and ‘shameless’ towards the current economic realities facing Nigerians.
“The Nigeria capitalist ruling elites push the consequences of the crises they created on the poor," the statement reads.
It also said: "The Lagos State Government under Babajide Sanwo-Olu is so shameless that they have continued to sink public education further below where Tinubu sank it while as governor of Lagos State.
“Tinubu has continued his collapse of public education at the federal level but fully commercializing education through his student loan policy.
“Nigerian children deserve free qualitative education at all levels and do not deny them access to education.
"All well-meaning Nigerians must lend their voices to this attempt to exclusively position education for the rich alone while the children of the poor who form over 90% of Nigeria’s population are denied access to education.
“We reject education commercialization. Education is a Right not a privilege.”
Similarly, the Parents’ Forum of Lagos Model Colleges has threatened that their wards will not resume for the new academic session until the hike in boarding fees is reversed.
In a statement issued on Saturday night, the Chairman of the Parents’ Forum of Lagos Model Colleges, Surv. Dapo Dawodu, lamented the “greed” behind the increment.
“We have witnessed, in the last 24 hours, an avalanche of outpouring of extreme disdain, anguish and deep frustration at 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 most unfortunate that the unbridled greed of these enemies of the good people of Lagos State (vide you the parents), were given their leeway by the headship of the ministry.
“To be clear, the fee of N100,000 per term, when paid in a school of 1000 students, translates to N100million in the purse of the school principal to feed the children within just 3 months!”
