Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has defended the state government’s decision to stop the payment of the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASCE) fees for candidates in the state, and the introduction of N3,000 annual Developmental Levy for each secondary school pupil in the school.
The governor said the decisions were borne out of the economic reality in the state and the desire to address abysmal performance of candidates in the examination, adding that the decision to introduce levy was taken after it was discovered that parents no longer involve themselves in the education of their children.
The governor said: “With the paucity of fund in the state, we had to face the reality that we could not continue to sponsor children without involving their parents in a way. This is why we introduced the developmental levy. It’s just for a period of time, as soon as things improve for the state financially, we will put it down.
It is an emergency situation that we must address. “Training of children is not a sole responsibility of government or teachers; parents must play their role too. We discussed with the parents and realised that because parents were not involved in secondary education of their children, they did not bother what happened to them.”
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