Muslim Schools Owners Threaten To Close Down Over Rising Cost Of Operation

Operators of Muslim schools in the country have cried out over the rising cost of operating the schools due to the galloping inflation.

The operators warn that they may be compelled to close down the schools permanently, if the federal government failed to intervene in the challenges that they are facing.

The operators, under the auspices of league of Muslim school operators spoke out during the 2023 proprietors summit, organized by the Lagos state chapter of the body.

The national president of the league, Abdulwaheed Obalakun, said the rising cost of education needs and services are making it difficult to run the schools since the last covid pandemic.

He said the recent removal of petrol subsidy, has further compounded the challenges they are facing to sustain running  of the schools.

While Obalakun urged LEAMSP members that even at that, they should ensure to take pragmatic steps that can help them to mitigate their challenges and at the same time expect government intervention.

In his welcome address earlier, the Lagos State chairman of LEAMSP,

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Mansur Yaqeen, also observed that government at all levels would need to give adequate support to private schools so that they would not only survive but thrive.

He said government agencies in Lagos State, for example, are bothering private schools too much with various forms of taxes and levies without considering their financial capability to pay.

He decried the development, urging the government not to see private schools again as sources of revenue generation but as social service providers that need to be supported.

Yaqeen, therefore, urged the state government to help private schools with special funds and technical assistance and also reduce to a manageable amount

multiple levies if it cannot completely waive them while at the same time always including them in policymaking on issues that bother education.

“That is the way we can be encouraged to survive and do better,” he stressed.

Yaqeen, however, explained that the essence of the annual summit is to expose LEAMSP’s

members to new knowledge and trends in the education sector that would help them to do better in their service delivery.

He then charged them to ensure they make good use of the training to move their schools forward and also contribute more meaningfully to education development in Lagos and beyond.