FEMI ADI/ Kaduna
The Kaduna State government has abolished payment of fees for admission forms and processes which are usually paid by students seeking admission into tertiary institutions in the state .
Kaduna Education Commissioner , Dr. Shehu Usman Adamu, who disclosed this shortly after the cabinet meeting said all state government owned tertiary institutions have been directed to comply with the directive .
According to the commissioner, under no condition henceforth should scratch cards be sold to admission-seekers for access to school portals .
Adamu who equally hinted that the executive council was persuaded considering the plight of students, maintained that admission into higher institutions should not be treated as a revenue source.
Adamu said the council also directed that all non-teaching occupants of school quarters should vacate the premises within 90 days.
He equally informed that teachers transferred to other schools have six months to give up their former quarters.
The State Executive Council during the executive meeting has approved a draft Fiscal Responsibility Bill, according to the Finance Commissioner Suleiman Kwari .
He said the Fiscal Responsibility Bill is designed to help protect the state from fiscal indiscipline and reform public financial management in the state.
The bill according the Finance Commissioner, which will be submitted to the state’s House of Assembly for legislation will provide for an independent commission to monitor and enforce the provisions of the proposed law.
The Finance Commissioner also reminded MDAs that extant laws prohibit the receipt of cash payments from members of the public.