• Professor Muhammad Sani Tanko, Kaduna State University’s chairman has removed the fear of parents of students about increasing school fees where he discussed with the media and said they made a good plan by no student to leave school because of the increase in school fees He didn’t pay for school fees.

This is in an interview with journalists about raising school fees.

Question: People have noticed that you closed schools that, graduates should stay at home for a while. Why did he bring that?
Answer: As people know that school fees have been increased, which is why students are protesting. Due to running away, there will be no problems that are always protesting in this situation, don’t come to you until you lose hope. That’s why we decided instead of letting the kids protest, we’d rather close everyone’s school and come back and discuss.

Question: Don’t you think this closing school will affect children’s studies especially recently recovered from the Korona Bairos Proposal?

Answer: The reason is that if children are allowed to protest, some of them live in town can get into this student and destroy it. And that’s how it is until you get lost. Well that’s what we’re running, and you see it’s better than closing the school until everyone is calm and saying there’s lost lives and wealth. After relaxing and opening the school then continuing the studies in peace. If there is no peace, education is impossible.

Question: As a school board, are you not trying to see you sit with these kids to understand why the school board increased school fees?

Question: Yes, do we sit with students as we know we sit with student leaders, especially those who protest. What we say is, there are ways to help. He who doesn’t have the ability to pay, please pay him. We have brought plans that if students follow him God willing no one will leave school because he doesn’t have school fees. This is what we confirmed for students. The problem now is not theirs. It’s a parent’s problem, and we are the parents so we all should sign to see this problem solved.
If you don’t have to raise your school fees, what you shouldn’t be taught because school doesn’t have money to do, it’s better to be given what you deserve. The one who goes out will say this gets the right knowledge.

Question: In your opinion say there are ways you come out to see these kids sponsored so they can pay this school fees. What kind of ways is this?

Answer: First of all there is a donation called ‘scholarship’. For those in the ‘scholarship’ of two colors; there are those who are given small strength. There are those who try and also those who are given loan.
And then we discussed with local government leaders they assured us they will help their local government students to pay for this school fees.
And then again, we discussed with private organizations and we hope they can help especially women who can’t afford. There is a group of women that said they will help women.
Also, there are school groups like Majlis, SPSS and others who also promised to support those who couldn’t afford school fees. So if students are patient everything will pass. Students should be sorry soon we will open a portal where anyone who can’t afford to go and open his name.
Students need to understand, the problem is not theirs. Let’s sign up and see how everyone can pay for school fees. But if there is a protest, you won’t get the way you want, we won’t also get the way we want. So you’ll see the whole thing is lost and nothing is fixed.

Question: Mention a place where the ‘ portal ‘ will be opened so that anyone who can’t pay school fees will name it. Will those who can pay not put their name in?

Answer: Any student that thinks he can’t pay will put his name in it. From the past and there is a student leader that will judge, yes, of course who can’t. So let’s see where he can get help? Is it for the women’s or local government or the organization in school?

Question: There are people who ask if it’s necessary to raise the school fees. Or are some reasons the school agency thinks school fees should be increased?

Answer: So now you see last year we were given four hundred and twenty million. Let that be given us five million. But this year we were given a total of million ‘overhead cost’. So what will he do forty million? These computers you see must be bought for them. And even the exams that will be done until the exams are bought.
There is no way to run a university without enough money. Because of the forty million we were given we didn’t pass to spend it in one month at the University.
This is why I say if your student is taken you will be taught to be certified in computer or micro biology go to the experimental classroom. If you are learning medical practitioners don’t go to buy corpse to come and work on, which doctor would you be? You see it is necessary for the university to have money and the government to fail due to lack of entrance fee, no money to give to the university. He himself can’t even sponsor the police he can only help.

Abdullah Yunus Abdullah
abdullah.yunus@kdsg.gov.ng