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The senatorial campaigner of All Peoples Movement, APM successful Oyo Central District, Olufemi Oguntoyinbo has said the projected increment successful the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, and National Examinations Council, NECO, registration fees volition summation the fig of retired of schoolhouse children successful the country.
Oguntoyinbo who made the assertion successful a connection connected Thursday, urged the national authorities to driblet the program totally.
The national authorities had precocious announced that it volition summation the registration fees but aboriginal suspended the proposal.
He noted that the planned summation should not beryllium suspended but dropped totally, insisting that determination is crushed to summation the fees astatine this clip erstwhile the bulk of Nigerians are struggling to eat.
He said, “The duties of the governments is to adequately amended its citizens, truthful it is unusual that the national authorities is hiking introspection fees erstwhile galore parents are not financially buoyant to nonstop their wards to schools and the fig of schoolhouse driblet outs is connected the increase.
“If not for immoderate good to bash individuals successful the state who are assisting the indigent students, the fig of schoolhouse driblet outs would person reached an alarming rate”.
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