EDUCATION RIGHTS CAMPAIGN(ERC) CONDEMNS
PETER OBI(APGA) OVER HIKE IN ANAMBRA
STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL FEE AS STUDENTS GO
ON STREET PROTEST IN ANAMBRA STATE
AGAINST PETER OBI
"The Education Rights Campaign (ERC)
condemns the Anambra state government
and the university management of Anambra
State University (ANSA) for increasing the
school fees from N36,000 to N86,000 for
non-medical students, N120,000 for medical
students.
We see this increment as unjustifiable and
anti-people. We do not need a soothsayer to
tell us that some students will be forced to
withdraw from school should the new fee
regime is left to remain.
Besides, there is no reason to increase fees
in a country wherein many workers/parents
earn poverty wages and many are losing
jobs by the day, considering also the rising
cost of living and inflation. In fact, what we
should be working towards across the
federation is to expand and upgrade the
current state of facilities in schools and also
build new schools with basic facilities and
well trained workers to guarantee
meaningful learning. At present less than 10
percent of applicants get admission to the
universities as a result of limited facilities.
Now, those who got admitted would lose
their studentship because they cannot
afford the new fee hike regime. We of the
ERC say No to “cash and carry” public
education.
The ERC commend the students for
conducting a peaceful protest against the
hike on Thursday April 14 2011 in Anambra
State despite police provocation and
harassment. It has proved that students can
organize peaceful resistance and protest.
We call on the students to continue on the
struggle and deepen it by reaching out to
lecturers, non-academic staff, parents, trade
unions etc., to support their struggle to
defeat the obnoxious fee. We encourage the
students to organize more peaceful
protests, demonstrations, lecture boycotts,
and other means available to draw the
attention to their plights.
The spate of increment in school fees like
other anti-people policies goes to show that
the ruling class lacks the ability to move the
economy forward. The speed at which those
in the position of authority increase their
salaries, allowances and use other means to
shortchange the system only points to the
fact that the living conditions of the working
people will be under constant attacks. These
neo-liberal capitalist attacks come through
different ways such as increment in fees
(commercializat ion of education), increment
in taxes and other forms of tariffs,
retrenchment of workers, cuts in social
services etc.
Hence, we call on the Anambra state
government to increase the allocation to the
institution to the level that will not only
make it possible to revert the school fees to
N36000 but also to that level wherein school
fees would be abrogated soon.
The ERC calls on the local unit of the
Academic Staff Union of the University led by
Mr. Jaja Nwachukwu to come out from its
ambivalent position to fully support the
struggle of the students to defeat the hike.
We want to state that it was not the struggle
of university workers alone that won wage
increment for the lecturers but for the
support other strata of the society gave to
the struggle.

This is a gang up against APGA for the upcoming election in de state. Why stage a protest for hike in school fees when students has been sitting at home for almost 4 months now due to ASUU strike?
Is this hike in school fee a recent incident?

njideoby: This is a gang up against APGA for the upcoming election in de state. Why stage a protest for hike in school fees when students has been sitting at home for almost 4 months now due to ASUU strike?
Is this hike in school fee a recent incident?

because it makes no different to the youth whether ASUU is on strike or not . Even if ASUU call off today they still cannot afford the school fee. Our youths are perpetually on Strike!

I urge all anambrarians to endure for a while,the new breeze will soon befall us....VOTE NGIGE for libration

I hope they don't declare a state of emergency in Ananmbra State to calm down the state? I think Ifeayi Ubah or Obialo is the best!??

Hmmmm!! Ngige and cohorts have decided to up there game. Anambra students should reject Ngige and APC, LASU school fees is 250k!!!!(APC GOVT)....ANYA SAAA!!!