Senior High School Students to start paying Utility bills

• Posted on October 31, 2013October 31, 2013
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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President of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Samuel Ofori Adjei says schools will have no option but to pass on payment of utility tariffs onto parents if the government withdraws the utility subsidy it gives to the Senior High Schools(SHS).

This is as a result of the government decision to cut the payment of utilities to all public institutions including public schools, hospitals and security agencies.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Ofori Adjei said “there will be a slight increase in the fees that parents will have to pay every term.”

“There are some parents who can afford ten times the amount that is paid as school fees because of their resource base, equally there are parents who will sweat to raise school fees…; let’s look at our financial situation, I know of people who are earning huge sums of money and can pay,’’ he said.

According to him the situation where a scenario is created like not everyone can afford to pay full fees should be addressed, “Let us not pretend as if it is everybody who cannot pay; when they come to these public schools. Some of them were paying ten times the amount in the private schools before they came to public schools….’’

“Let us identify the students who have to be supported,’’ he added.


By: Evans Effah