The Oyo state Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Salihu Adelabu, Monday, warned Principals and Teachers in public schools across the state against collection of illegal fees.
Prof Adelabu handed down the warning while monitoring the resumption of schools for the second term academic activities in Ibadan metropolis.
The commissioner pointed out that education is free in all public schools across Oyo state and that there is no basis for collection of illegal fees from the pupils and students as well as from their parents.
Prof Adelabu expressed happiness with the level of compliance of teachers and students in resumption for the second term school calendar in the state, urging that parents who are yet to release their wards to quickly release them as academic activities have begun in earnest, saying keeping them back home would put them at a disadvantage among their colleagues.
” I want to warn the Teachers that never must they charge the students and parents because Education is free in Oyo State, also to the parents whose their Children are yet to come, should allow them to come to school as teachings and learnings have commenced in the schools.
“Today is the first day of resumption in our public Primary and Secondary Schools in Oyo State.The enthusiasm of the Teachers and Students are very okay; luckily enough, based on what I have seen, not less than 70% of our Students resumed and almost 97% of the staff are in the schools,” he said.
