The Oyo
State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has said that the state government annually
spends N54,000 on each secondary school pupil in the state.
During a
call on parents to support the government in the training of their children, at
the posthumous centenary birthday celebration and foundation launch in honour
of the late Adegoke Adelabu in Ibadan on Thursday, Ajimobi said the decision to
ask parents to pay N1,000 per term for a pupil in the secondary school was only
reached as a temporary measure to address facility decay as well as involving
parents in their children training.
He said,
“Each session, the state spends N54,000 on each secondary school pupil apart
from the payment of the West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination
fee we were paying. I don’t know why we receive backlash when we asked parents
to pay N1,000 per term for the education of their children.
He urges the
parents to cooperate with the state government and pay this Education
Developmental Levy.
Lets wait and see how parents and civil societies will reach to this development in the state.
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