Doveland School Laments Multiple Taxation, Says It’s Burden on Private Schools

Ayo Ajayi in Abuja

The Executive Director and founder of Doveland International School, Mrs. Justina Chukwu, has expressed concern over multiple taxation being paid by private educational institutions in Nigeria.

She made the observation at the inaugural Founder’s Week in Abuja.

This was after she said that private schools had over the years been alleviating the shortfall in admissions in public schools, both secondary and tertiary.

She further said that Federal Government had failed to recognize that the private sector players were visionaries who had the burden to alleviate the problems in the educational system in the country.

She said ” The burden on the shoulders of private education schools is too much. Multiple taxation, we have sanitation levy and we have environmental levy.

“It’s like the taxation keeps mounting, many agencies go around schools to ensure that they rip them off everything. And again the government parastatals, especially the board that oversees the activities of private school owners, they leave the government schools and the inadequacy of government schools and concentrate on private schools.”

She however called on government to collaborate with private sector and look into how they can synergize to move the education system forward.

“I have not seen a private school in Nigeria where government has given grants to like what we see in other countries.

“I want the Minister of FCT to give us a listening ear and understand the burden we carry.

“My vision is to do everything for the next generation of children, raising them to become leaders, everywhere that this generation has failed the education system should begin to correct these”, she said.