Osun pupils protest request for tax clearance

Secondary school students in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Tuesday staged a protest against the government policy that any student who cannot produce their  parents’ tax clearance should not be allowed in school.

Students of Osogbo High School trooped out in hundreds and trekked from their school, through Ogo Oluwa area to the Governor’s Office singing anti-government songs.

Armed with leaves, the students were joined on the roads to the Governor’s Office by their colleagues in other schools.

The Head Boy of Osogbo High School 1,  Taiwo Oyewole, said the students were protesting because most of  their parents who were government workers had not been paid for months, adding that it was impossible for them (parents) to pay N4,500 for  tax clearance.

He said there was a directive from the state government that any student who could not produce the clearance should not be allowed in school.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, when contacted said the directive was given by a body at the Internal Revenue.

Oyeniran said, ” Internal revenue gave the directive, but it is a collective decision. We will talk to them to douse the tension.”

Mtchew... If its waec candidates they will be chasing them around for waec fees and also tax clearance?

Poor boy! Yours is even better that you dad is a working class. What goes for the rest whose parents are peasant farmers and whose produce are left to rot because of poor cash flow.

This is the zenith of man's inhumanity to man. And God will certainly hear the cries of the people.

Aregbe is a disgrace to Yoruba race

mankan2k7:
Aregbe is a disgrace to Yoruba race

Infact he is clueless

na wa o

As you lay your bed na so you go lie un top am oo..
I no pity for Osun people at all.

a times I want to wonder wat goes on in his(Aregbe's) mind

Mtchew This is so silly... I was seriously expecting sumtin like..." No tax No free fees for your children" We suppose don reach this stage na
Op where's ur source?

SOMEONE REMIND ME, WEN IS THE NEXT ELECTION IN THIS GOD FORSAKEN STATE

This is the height of insensitivity. But he never asked for tax clearance when canvasing for their vote.

APC can't get a grip on osun.
The situation is their albatross.

come to think of it, why shld educating children which shld b a social responsibility of govt be tied to dere parent's tax clearance?
secondly, so children without parents are out of education equation of Osun state

mankan2k7:
Aregbe is a disgrace to Yoruba race

You can say that again!
He is the most useless and callous governor in the history of Nigeria.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, when contacted said the directive was given by a body at the Internal Revenue.

Imagine this nonsense why will such directive come from Internal Revenue Office, its high time the leadership of APC talk sense into that disgrace of a governor (Aregbe) thick brain.

if this thread was showing some naked women it wld av made front page since yesterday