Acceptance Fee: An Open Letter To The Public -By Idowu Marvelous

“Refund Acceptance Fees or Have Them Protest.”

I write as a Nigerian student to add to the weight of dissatisfaction that is increasingly targeted at tertiary institutions’ administrators, governing boards and the government. I write to reject the downplaying efforts that have been used to prolong the unjustifiable act of receiving acceptance fee fund from students, and also to reject the deliberate attempt to inconvenient the means for refund.

As it is displayed, it is an unreasonable act, to have a situation of partial obedience to the refund order implemented by the Federal Government. This act of absolute or partial disobedience to the new development of refunding the unnecessary charge is such that is provoking to the Nigerian students populace as an overdue agitation.

Knowing that this defiant disobedience persist, it is henceforth a duty for the Federal Government to put legal coercion against the disreputable disobedience, that have been practiced by institutions like the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and many others.

Said many times, the cultural practice of generating internal revenue through acceptance fee charge is a dubious channel, in the educational sector. It apparently makes no logic to collect dues, which is now a flamboyant rocketing due, from individual students, for admitting them to study and be students.

Since this is a long-dated practice, and unwillingness have been seen on the part of subnational authorities and of especial importance institutions administrators in the good will to cooperate with this pristine incentive, the take is that the Nigerian biosphere and the international community should not be surprised to have students demonstration outbreak around or anytime soon.

It would require no prophet to help Nigerians and the Nigerian Government to understand that acceptance fee is exploitation, and to mobilise students for a national struggle would be the final resort to the recklessness of the inhumane policy.

Idowu Marvelous writes, an undergraduate student of Ekiti State University, Nigeria.