Schools defy govt on fees, uniforms

MANY schools countrywide have defied government by sending home hundreds of pupils over non-payment of fees since schools opened on Monday for the first term.

Dozens of other schools are also exclusively supplying uniforms to their learners, despite government banning schools from the practice as well as not allowing the schools to turn away pupils over failure to pay fees.

In turning away the pupils school authorities are arguing that it was difficult to run the learning institutions with scant financial resources.

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