Rainbow Party president, Wynter Kabimba has charged that if universities were milking the little resources from the poor students years ago, Nkandu Luo would not be minister today.
Mr Kabimba added that Prof Luo would not have gotten the education that she got if universities were as expensive as today.
The opposition leader said the problem
with African educated people is that once they get into positions of power they forget about where they have come from.
“This is not America
where public universities must act as if they are private universities by
trying to raise money from poor families. These are universities that are
in a poor country, that are in an economy which is inactive, and
unproductive. And to insist that the universities must make money from
tuition fees is just ridiculous in my view,” Mr Kabimba said.
Mr Kabimba pointed that Column Coal Mine in Sinazongwe two days ago was offering to pay PTA fees to the school because more than half the children there have been withdrawn by their parents
because they can’t afford to pay these fees, very small amounts of
money.
“That tells you the state of our economy. The parents are not
doing it out of pleasure. And there’s no difference between the
Sinazongwe community and the community where those students are
coming from,” he explained.
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