Rivers state has been dragged to court by an educational institutes in Lagos over a breach of agreement between both parties.
Nyesom Wike
A school, Cambridge College, Ikeja, Lagos, has sued the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency over an unpaid N17m debt.
A Punch correspondent gathered that the sum is the balance of tuition meant for 16 indigent students of the state who had their A level/Foundational Class at the college last year.
It was learnt that the college is one of selected Lagos schools being owed tuition under the scholarship scheme introduced by the Rivers State Government for its indigent but brilliant pupils.
Others are the Supreme Education Foundation, Magodo; Chrisland Schools, Ikeja, and Edgewood International School.
In a statement of claim filed before an Ikeja High Court and obtained by a correspondent on Thursday, the college authorities asked the RSSDA to pay the balance as well as N1m damages for breach of contract.
The suit, which also joined the Attorney-General/Commissioner for Justice as a defendant, also sought “interests at the prevailing Central Bank rate of 25 per cent per annum till the liquidation of the judgment.’’
The Punch had reported last year that some students studying abroad under the scholarship scheme had
More than 2,000 secondary and post-secondary students reportedly benefited from the initiative inaugurated by former Governor Chibuike Amaechi in 2008.
The acting Executive Director, RSSDA, Mr. Godwin Poi, had said that Governor Nyesom Wike, had authorised the payment of the tuition, especially for the final year students.
The state, Poi also said, had written to the schools to show its commitment to paying the backlog.
Meanwhile, the Director, Cambridge College, Mr. Wale Odunlami, who spoke to a correspondent,said the institution had no choice but to seek a legal redress.
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