By Ruth Oginyi
Hon. Nkemkanma Kama the member representing Ohazara, Onicha, and Ivo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for wading into planned fee hike for unity schools in the country.
Federal Ministry of Education recently announced an increase in school fees for all the unity schools from 45000 to 100,000.
The hike raised a public cry from parents and guidance.
But the House of Representatives in a motion moved by Hon. Kama appealed to the Federal Government to suspend the planned increase.
President Tinubu in reaction, ordered the authorities in all federal institutions of higher learning to avoid arbitrary increases in the fees payable.
President Tinubu also advised the institutions to, where possible, defer further increases so that parents and students don’t face too many difficulties.
He however approved the provision of buses to the student bodies of all universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education across the country.
The President’s order was revealed in a statement by the Special adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy, Dele Alake on Monday.
Hon. Kama, in a statement, applauded the President for having a listening ear.
He explained that he moved the motion because he believed the fee hike will lead to a rise in the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria.
He noted that the ill-timed hike in the fees will unleash incalculable social, moral, economic, and psychological disaster and will cause irredeemable shocks in our already overwhelmed country.
Hon. Kama further revealed that the House will soon invite the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Education and the National Body of the Parents-Teachers-Association to deliberate on the issues prompting the increase.
