Nyesom
Wike, Rivers State Gov.
Cambridge
College Ikeja, Lagos, has sued the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency
over an unpaid N17m debt.
The
sum is the balance of tuition meant for 16 indigent students of the state who
had their A level/Foundational Class at the college last year.
The
college is one of the selected Lagos schools being owed tuition under the
scholarship scheme introduced by the Rivers State Government for its brilliant
indigent pupils.
Others
are the Supreme Education Foundation, Magodo; Chrisland Schools, Ikeja, and
Edgewood International School.
In
a statement of claim filed before an Ikeja High Court, the college authorities
asked the RSSDA to pay the balance as well as N1m damages for breach of
contract.
The
suit, which also joined the Attorney-General/Commissioner for Justice as a
defendant, also sought “interests at the prevailing Central Bank rate of 25 per
cent per annum till the liquidation of the judgment.’’
More
than 2,000 secondary and post-secondary students reportedly benefited from the
initiative inaugurated by former Governor Chibuike Amaechi in 2008.
The
acting Executive Director, RSSDA, Mr. Godwin Poi, had said that Governor Nyesom
Wike, had authorised the payment of the tuition, especially for the final year
students.