Kwara State Ministry of Education has ordered school principals to disallow in their various schools the annual free holiday lesson classes the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain, Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN), sponsored for secondary school students across the 16 local councils of the state.

MDB Solidarity Team, the group supervising the inititaive to push up the students in their studies, had written and secured written permission of the principals whose schools had been chosen as venues for the lessons.

Following what sources call intense pressures from PDP, officials from the state Ministry of Education and SUBEB went round some of the schools to stop the lesson. The officials said they were acting on the order of the commissioner for education who in turn has directed the principals to stop the extra lessons.

The lesson, in its second year, commenced last Monday August 6, following the long school break across the country.

As at Thursday, the state government has stopped the lesson in St. john Primary School Maraba (Ilorin East),St. Bernaba Primary School Sabo Oke (Ilorin East),Adabiya Primary School Abata Baba Oyo in Ilorn West, United Community Secondary School Unity Road in iIorin South.

No reason was given for the directive.

Belgore's media aide, Rafiu Ajakaye, said the decision was "harsh and smirks of cheap politics."

He accused the government of double standard since it did not stop similar initiative by Senator Bukola Saraki a few months ago when the latter floated extra coaching for students writing the UTME in Ilorin.

"For the avoidance of doubt, public schools (Ansarul Islam Primary School Okekere, Banni Secodary School, Pakata Primary School ilorin) were used for the UTME thing and the government didn't stop it. We agree there's no reason to have stopped such initiative which, like the one Belgore SAN is organising, was an effort to mould better Kwarans," Ajakaye said.

"It is cheap politics, the sort of which we are preaching against, to stop this wonderful (education) initiative which to our mind is the best way to empower the people."

At the Belgore lesson, senior class students are taught lessons in Mathematics, English Language, Chemistry, Physics, Account, Economics, Commerce, Agricultural Science, Yoruba, Computer, Government, Litrature in English, and Biology. Junio class students take lessons in Basic Science, Agricultural science, English Language, Mathematics, Business Studies, Computer, Social Study, and Yoruba.

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