Uganda: Speaker Kadaga Vows to Stop School Fees Hike

16 February 2017

Government aided schools, in a rampage, are arbitrarily increasing tuition and non-tuition fees. Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga blames this to low enrolment and wastage of children's talents, vowing to block further increases.

Ms Kadaga said hiking of fees piles burdens on her, with children swarming into her office for financial assistance for their school dues. The rest that don't have the means, she said, end up wasting away into criminality.

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