Reduce your school fees or we cancel 3rd term – Kano govt to private schools

7hubent reports: The Kano State Commissioner of Education, Mal. Muhammad Sanusi Kiru has called on all Proprietors of Private Schools to reduce their school fees with minimum of 25% or the Ministry will be left with no option than to cancel in totality the 3rd term of the 2019/2020 academic session.

Mr. Kiru, in a statement signed by Aliyu Yusuf, the Ministry’s Public Relations Officer further explained that the decision of the Ministry became necessary in consideration of the hard economic condition experienced as a result of the lock down due to the menace of Covid -19 which affected both socio-economic position of the general public.

He said that “I set up two parallel Ad-hoc Committees to discuss with owners of private schools on the percentage of school fees they are to reduce as done in about 4 – 5 states or we cancel the 3rd term totally so that the academic calendar  will commence with a new session in January, 2021.

Proprietors of Private Schools should so some sign of  appreciation for the support they enjoyed from the State Government and extend the same magnanimity to the good people of Kano State.

7hubent reports:The Commissioner assured the good people of the State that if by 1st November, 2020 there is no positive response, the Ministry would be left with no option than to take such a revolutionary decision in public interest.