- By Halimah Olamide
Politician and Human Right Activist, Omoyele Sowore, has condemned parents paying for their kids to attend new British school, Charterhouse, stating that they are destroying Nigeria’s education.
The primary school which is located in the Lekki area of Lagos State charges N42 million yearly.
Reacting to this, Sowore has condemned this saying that the standard of the classrooms should be that of public schools in Nigeria.
“The people paying for their kids to attend this school are some of the same people building substandard school classrooms across Nigeria.
“What should not be lost on Nigerians is that these classrooms ought to be donning our public schools as the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world.”
According to him, “the outrage should actually be against the Nigerian political class that ruined public education institutions and diverted the funds from there to send their own kids to expensive private schools and also build themselves mansions that are swankier than the classrooms you see here.”
Charterhouse Lagos is the first British independent school in West Africa and part of the prestigious Charterhouse family of schools.