Friday, 21 August 2015

Why we stopped paying WAEC fees of students in Oyo – Ajimobi

Senator Abiola Ajimobi
After government stopped paying WAEC fees, the state government also introduced N3000 annual Developmental Levy for each secondary school pupil in the school.
The governor said this development levy too was for sometime. He took the decision to reduce effects of economic crunch in the state. He said, “With the paucity of fund in the state, we had to face the reality that we could not continue to sponsor children without involving their parents in a way. This is why we introduced the developmental levy


It’s just for a period of time, as soon as things improve for the state financially, we will put it down. It is an emergency situation that we must address”. We discussed with the parents and realised that because parents were not involved in secondary education of their children, they did not bother what happened to them.
We set up a committee to discuss with Parents Teachers Association, community leaders, individual parents and so on. Interestingly, many of the parents felt that if they were also contributing by paying something, they would be more attentive to the education of their childre

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