Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’
Forum, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has reversed the school fees payment
structure at the state-owned Rivers State University of Science and Technology
(RSUST). The Governor directed that from now
on students of the university would pay the same amount for tuition whether
they are indigenes of Rivers State or not.
Amaechi announced the payment reversal when he visited RSUST
on Monday for an interactive session with students of the university; and
sensitize them on voters’ registration and collection of permanent voter’s
cards which is scheduled to commence on Friday.
Responding to the students’ questions
and concerns which included the discrimination in school fees among indigenes
and non-indigenes, Governor Amaechi directed the school management to ensure
that all students of the university pay the same amount of fees. “Anybody in Rivers State University
of Science and Technology is an indigene. All of us are Nigerians”, he said,
and directed the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. George Feyii to prepare
a letter to the state university to that effect. “The reason why I made that statement
and I am going to back it up with a letter is that we are all Nigerians. So,
from today, no more discrimination in school fees,” Amaechi stated.
He enjoined the school authority to allow students register
their courses and pay later for those whose fees are not readily available at
the time of registration, in order not to deprive them of studying with their classmates.
