…biggest school fees for my children is N35k
Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru has called on his counterparts in the other 35 states of Nigeria to join hands and reposition the educational system in the country in order to discourage ‘big men’ from sending their children to school abroad.
In a statement credited to the governor, he was quoted to have said that he remained the only Nigerian state Chief Executive with all his children schooling, not only in Nigeria but within their geopolitical zone.
According to the governor, three of his children are schooling in his state (Ebonyi), while two are studying at a school in the neighboring Enugu state in the southeast, revealing that their biggest school fees was thirty-five thousand Naira (N35,000).
Gov Francis Ogbonna reportedly said “I am the only Governor in Nigeria presently that all his children are schooling in the country and not even beyond Southeast!
3 in Ebonyi and 2 in Enugu. Their biggest school fees is #35, 000 and when I told them in the Nigeria Governor’s forum, all were surprised and felt sober”.
While disclosing further that some of his Commissioners spent as much as two million Naira (N2,000,000.00) per term as school fees for their children, the governor imagined how he would be paying five million Naira (N5,000,000.00) per term for his children.
“Some Commissioners in my Government have schools they are paying over 2 Million naira per term for their children but I can’t imagine myself paying such amount that’s more than 5Million per term for my children.
Where will I get the money to continue paying for their school fees after my temporary tenure as a Governor? I don’t want to develop blood pressure during the time I should be resting.
We must have to join hands together and reposition educational system in the country such that we can bring down those things that are lacking here that is making those big men to always send their children abroad for studies and I must make sure it starts from Ebonyi State”, Governor Francis reportedly said.
