Rivers Varsity Asked To Review Convocation Charges

Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) successful Rivers State has called connected the authorities of the Rivers State University to reappraisal the existent mandatory charges imposed connected graduands.

The assemblage precocious rolled retired mandatory charges payable by graduands that volition beryllium conferred with certificates, archetypal degrees, postgraduate degrees and doctorate degrees.

According to the assemblage authorities, the charges are for their certificates, convocation brochures, scrolls, hiring of convocation gowns, lapels and ties.

But, CLO, successful a connection issued successful Port Harcourt by its spokesman,  Emmanuel Obe, described the charges arsenic outrageous, prohibitive and exploitative, pointing retired that immoderate of the charges are higher than the nationalist minimum wage.

The connection reads successful part: “No sooner person the charges been released than the students, parents and guardians began to lament the exorbitant charges, which necessitate that certificate grade graduands to pay, N68,000; archetypal grade graduands, N97,000, postgraduate degrees graduands, N145,000; and doctorate grade graduands, N220,000.

“These graduating students person completed their respective programmes aft paying each their fees and levies for the duration that their programmes lasted. Many of them travel from homes wherever families unrecorded from time to day.

“They person astatine slightest completed what was required of them to postgraduate and gain their certificates. The slightest merit astatine this constituent is for the University to congratulate them and contented them with their certificates.

“The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO , Rivers State Chapter, considers these charges arsenic outrageous, prohibitive and exploitative. Some of them are adjacent higher than the nationalist minimum wage. How tin parents with much than 1 graduating do?

“Convocation is simply a specified ceremony, which should not deter students that person earned their degrees and diplomas from receiving them from the Universi

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