Recently, LASU management decided to
increase the school fees, as usual students
frowned at it which led to a strike and
protests. A renowned lawyer Femi Falana has
something about this issue.
“It was unjustifiable that the civil servants at
the state secretariat in Alausa who worked
for the state to generate over N20bn
Internally Generated Revenue monthly but
earn N18,000 as minimum wage, will not be
able to train their children in the state-
owned university.
“If you are increasing fees beyond the reach
of the children of the poor, that is a Boko
Haram policy, because the action is against
western education. I reminded the governor
(Babatunde Fashola) that he did not pay
when he was a student when I met with him.
At Alausa, the minimum wage is N18,000, if
a public officer does not steal money from
the state, he cannot maintain a student in
LASU.
“If your public officers’ children cannot
attend your own
institution, what is the relevance of
government? For me it is immoral and
illegal. We must find a mechanism of
ensuring that the children of the poor can
access tertiary education in Nigeria,”
said Falana.
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