Ekiti promises to stop illegal collection of fees in public schools

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has said that the state government would soon issue a blanket guideline that will curb illegal collection of fees in public schools across the state, insisting that education remains free in the state’s public schools.

The governor, who stated this at a meeting with key stakeholders in the education sector, said he had received series of complaints that students were still being charged despite the executive order made by him last December abolishing payment of education levies in the state.

Fayemi, who reiterated that the revocation of education fees was not a political gimmick, said the government would no longer tolerate any head teacher or principal who sends pupils out of schools on account of fees.

However, the state’s President of the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Mr. Abiodun Omotoso, said parents do not understand the provisions of the executive order, urging the governor to specify which fees the government had cancelled.

He denied collusion between principals and some executives of PTA on alleged extortion of students through illegal collection of fees.