Committee slash Kwara poly school fees

The Joint Executive-Legislative Committee formed in the wake of illegal hike in tuition fees of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has approved a reduction in fees payable by indigene and non-indigene students of the institution. Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Ali Ahmad, said that the decision to reduce the tuition fees was based […]

The Joint Executive-Legislative Committee formed in the wake of illegal hike in tuition fees of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has approved a reduction in fees payable by indigene and non-indigene students of the institution.

Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Ali Ahmad, said that the decision to reduce the tuition fees was based on need to reflect policy of the state government on making education affordable to students.

It would be recalled that students of the institution had staged several protests against authorities of the polytechnic and the government over the hike in the tuition fees.

The state government announced a reduction of N5,000 on the fees as a way to address the situation.

However, the state government had to form a joint committee of both the executive and legislative arms to find a lasting solution to persistent protests by the students.

The Speaker, who said that the joint committee had directed the school to revert to schedule of fees as approved by the committee for the 2017/2018 academic session, added that the fees were much lower than what the management was to charge and what indigene students paid during 2016/2017 session.

"Thus, some students will now pay as much as N19,000 less than what they would have paid," he said.

He also said that all students that had paid over and above the 2017/2018 fees, as just approved, shall be refunded by the school, adding that the decision superseded all earlier decisions on the subject matter.

The Speaker, however, said that students had up till the end of January 2018 to fully pay their newly approved tuition fees.