The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, has berated the governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, over his decision to hike the fees of students in the state’s higher institution – Anambra State University, ANSU.

The state government had increased the tuition fees of the students from N36,000 to N86,000, for non-medical students, and N120,000 for medical students.

The group, in a statement issued yesterday, said students still found it difficult to pay the old fees, adding that the new fees were likely to force majority of the students out of school. 

ERC said there was no justification for the increment in school fees as parents earned very poor wages, while many were losing their jobs daily, in addition to the high cost of living and rising inflabe able to afford the new fees

He said: ”What we should be working towards across the federation is to expand and upgrade the current state of facilities in schools and also build new schools with basic facilities and well trained teachers to guarantee meaningful learning.”

Nwachukwu noted further that the increment in the school fees had shown that the  ruling class lacked the ability to move the economy forward.