Rights group to sue Okorocha for ‘fraudulent education programme’
Posted by: Ogbonnaya Obinna, Abakaliki Posted date: November 28, 2012

The Executive Director, Citizens Centre for Integrated Development and Social Rights, Mr. Emeka Ononamadu, has said the organisation would sue the Imo State Government for alleged fraudulent education programme that has forced several children out of the school.

Ononamadu spoke in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, during a two-day training for community leaders.

The training was organised by CLEEN Foundation in collaboration with Citizens Centre for Integrated Development and Social Rights.

The activist said the Rochas Okorocha education policy has caused untold headship among parents.

He noted that the cost of textbooks and other instructional materials since the inception of Okorocha administration has forced many Imo children out of school.

Ononamadu said most parents cannot afford the cost of textbooks, adding that the suit would correct the anomaly of removing tuition fee and imposing high cost of textbooks on parents.

He said: “I will soon institute a legal action against the Imo State Government. What we have in Imo State is not free education; rather, what we have is fools’ education. The Imo State Government announced to the people that it is running a free education but Imo school children are out of classroom.

“You may ask: why are they out of the classrooms? It’s because the cost of textbooks and other instructional materials has so much been hiked that most Imo parents can no longer afford them. People are complaining and I have decided to take it upon myself to ensure that this anomaly is urgently corrected.”

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Lo ba tan

People will do anything to spoil this man's name - he may not be the best, but damn

Why the so much attack? The allegation doesn't make any sense. They're alleging that he removed tuition and fees and hiked cost of books, what's the correlation between free tuition and fees from books and instructional materials? Does Rochas force parents to buy textbooks and materials from the school?

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Lo ba tan

Nama... You can't help it, can you?

manny4life: People will do anything to spoil this man's name - he may not be the best, but damn

Why the so much attack? The allegation doesn't make any sense. They're alleging that he removed tuition and fees and hiked cost of books, what's the correlation between free tuition and fees from books and instructional materials? Does Rochas force parents to buy textbooks and materials from the school?



Nama... You can't help it, can you?

Speak for yourself. Imo people are now realizing that Rochas is a monumental fraud. The only thing about him is that he has been a consistent philanthropist. He is a failure as a Governor

seanet01: Speak for yourself. Imo people are now realizing that Rochas is a monumental fraud. The only thing about him is that he has been a consistent philanthropist. He is a failure as a Governor

I can authoritatively speak for whom I wish to speak for, this has absolutely nothing to do with you. Rochas is a monumental fraud because you said so right? QUIT HATING MAN, because some unrecognized group asserted unverified claims, we should accept it hook, line sinker?

Nothing wrong in being a Philanthropist, however, your opinion being a failure is VERY IRRELEVANT.