Chairman Of DLB Group Is Paying Off Over 230 Tuition Fees So Students Won’t Miss Their Chances At Graduation

Chief (Barr) Dumo Lulu-Briggs or DLB as he is popularly known and which is now known as the DLB Brand is a seasoned legal practitioner of over 27 years post call, an accomplished businessman, technocrat, politician and grassroots mobilizer. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of DLB group, a conglomerate of company.

Chief Barr. Dumo Lulu-Briggs is paying off over 230 tuition fees so students won’t miss their chance at graduation, if this is not commitment to the next generation, then I wonder what is. Commitment to the future of any state is evidenced in the commitment to grooming and educating the next generation. As the days go by, more young people are becoming disillusioned by the idea of being Nigerian, they believe the system is rigged against them such that they cannot actualize the dreams they have.

The “no school fees, no examination policy”, at a critical time like this for students in Rivers state is the height of insensitive to the young people in the state.

The timely intervention of Chief Barr. Dumo Lulu-Briggs in the case of students owing tuition fees in the state is truly divine. Sadly, we do not see other voices joining to speak up and contribute to the aid of those who cannot meet the steep “No Fees No Examination” policy in 72hrs.

It is important to note that DLBs gesture was not just out of mere benevolence, but it was more to his commitment to ensure that the indigent students are afforded equal opportunities.

According to DLB
“… It is very unfortunate, it looks like there is a deliberate attempt to see that our children are not educated.

You cannot come up with a policy like that just a week to examinations, you have to give the students time.

If they knew ahead of time that they won’t be able to write their exams without paying their school fees, they would have starting the “ragging”, trying to talk to uncles, aunts and interested persons in society to seek help.

But instead you give your own children less than 72 hours to pay school fees otherwise they won’t be able to write exams. It looks like a deliberate policy to ensure that exams are not written by indigent students.”

The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, when we were younger, we all went to the same public schools, wether your father was a Permanent Secretary or not, we had the same teachers teach everybody.

Now quality education can only be afforded privately, and then you come up with a policy that ensures that even the education cannot be obtained.

I think it is very unfortunate, and no government should allow this to happen, because the biggest responsibility of any government is to ensure that they educate the next generation. When you come up with policies that are unethical and not justifiable in any circumstance, it calls for concern. If the “No Fees No Exams policy”, was the policy of the school, I believe students would have known and made adequate preparations.

If last year you were able to write exams without paying your fees, then the same thing should apply to you.

How do we even think of policies like this, and why would you not give parents who are suffering and struggling to put food on the table, time to be able to pay the school fees of their children, it is very unfortunate.”

Nia’Bari Fakae,
SA Media, Dumo Lulu-Briggs

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