FG Pegs PTA Levies At N5, 000 Max In 104 Public Schools
Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education[/caption]
The Federal Ministry of Education, on Tuesday, pegged the maximum levy to be paid for development and Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) in Federal Government schools across Nigeria at N5,000.
In a statement signed by the ministry’s deputy director of press, Bem Goong, the development was initiated by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and is aimed at relieving parents of their plights by controlling the manipulation they suffer from paying excessive PTA levies to unity schools.
According to the statement, the minister cited an instance of excessive PTA levies in Kings College, Lagos, and Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba, Lagos.
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The schools are said to charge the sum of N69, 400 for JSS1 school fees, while King College charges N70, 000 and Federal Science and Technical College receives 74, 000 as PTA levies respectively.
He said “this brings the total paid by parents in these two schools to N139, 400 and N143, 400 respectively.
Hence the Minister has said “no PTA of any unity college is allowed to initiate any development project in any of the unity colleges without the express or written authorisation of the Federal Ministry of Education.
“The new measures are aimed at arresting the shocking trend where development levies imposed on parents by PTAs are becoming higher than the school fees charged by government which established the unity schools,’’ said the ministry.
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“With the reduction on development levies and ban on charges for new projects as well as pegging of the development levy to a maximum of N5, 000, parents of JSS1 in these two schools will now pay N88, 000.
“I acknowledge the complementary roles played by parents and the support provided by the PTA to the colleges but I will not allow the PTAs to constitute themselves into a government within a government at the level of unity schools and at the expense of parents’’ Adamu said.
