It is more than a year since the Enugu State commissioner for education, Dr. Simon Ortuanya promised that primary schools would be receiving N25, 000 (twenty five thousand naira) as subvention per term, however, online information portal, DailyPost, has revealed that no school has received such money.
Yet, the budgetary allocation to education in the state has increased from 2012 to date. The commissioner had told journalists in January 2012 that all primary school heads in the state would be receiving the subvention to enable them attend to critical needs of their schools. According to him: “On the part of the headmasters, instead of N600 or N1000, per month, government has now said they will be receiving N25, 000 subvention every term. With this, they can buy chalk, repair leaking roof, and solve other things without putting pressure on the pupils”.
