Lagos State Government has denied claims that it imposed a N20,000 education tax on parents seeking admission for their children into public schools, insisting that education remains free across the state.
The Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary, Education District II, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Omotayo Sanni, clarified on Monday during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Zumratul Islamiyyah Smart Primary School in Igbogbo, Ikorodu.
Sanni’s clarification followed concerns raised by former Minister of Works, Adeseye Ogunlewe, who appealed to the government not to introduce what he described as an education tax.
Ogunlewe said, “You said we should be paying education tax. We don’t want it. It’s free education that we want. You said it should be N20,000. We don’t have it.”
Also speaking at the event, a former Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Chief Asipa Olusanya, urged the government to sustain free education, warning that any levy could worsen
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