The Chairperson, Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria, Edo State Chapter during the week cried out saying private schools in the state are being strangulated and that not less than 10 private schools have been closed recently.
“10 private schools have been put up for sale because of “excessive taxation, nine different levies, including fumigation fees and so much more!”
Dr. Ngozi Christy Emuen, Chairperson of Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria (APSON), says school owners are being pushed to the brink, forced to sell their dreams, their legacies, their institutions of learning, all because of a system that’s supposed to support education, not strangle it!
Meanwhile, some concerned individuals who reacted to the development put their weights behind the government actions and called for what they called, “menace” of Private School Owners in the state and Nigeria in general.
“The government should also beam their search light on school under federal government establishment,,the Edo state government should constitute a special task force to visit all the school in the 18 local government, starting with oredo head will role”
