Gov Ikpeazu Reacts To University’s Demand For “Returning Students” To Pay Pandemic Prevention Fee

Labule Thomas

Okezie Ikpeazu, the Governor of Abia State has reacted to demand by the state university for returning students to pay a fifteen thousand Naira Pandemic Prevention fee.

The Governor ordered the ‘scrapping’’ of the controversial fee imposed on “Returning Students” of the Abia State University (ABSU) through a letter signed by the registrar, Acho Elendu.

Ikpeazu who responded to the development via a comment on a Twitter thread generated on the Pandemic Prevention fee also announced that “Our government will go ahead to pay N30,000 to each Abia student in the institution as further support to them, their parents…”