MONROVIA- After Education minister Pro. Ansu Sonii said there is no set guideline by government that regulates fees to be charged by private schools in the country, Liberia Students Union has called for his resignation.

It can be recalled Pro. Sonii Told Senate hearing that is no set guardline by government that regulates private school fees and the ministry is currently conducting an assessment to ascertain schools involved in the hiking of fees.

He told the Senate that by the end of October the exercise will be completed and certain standard will be set in consultation with members of the National Legislature.

But LINSU says the Ministry of Education and the Government of Liberia in general with the anticipation of finding a panacea to the growing predicaments confronting Liberia’s Educational sector.

Meanwhile LINSU says, it has come to realize the unwillingness of the MOE under the leadership of Min. D. Ansu Sonii to professionally and amicably remedy the National and International embarrassment confronting the Educational Sector of Liberia which are chiefly due to poor leadership. On the other hand, LINSU has realized that the Liberian economic downturn is a major factor in the sickening affairs of EDUCATION SECTOR in Liberia.
The National Executive Committee (NEC) which runs the day to day affairs of LINSU has resolved to seek the immediate RESIGNATION/DISMISSAL of the Min. D. Ansu Sonii of the Ministry of Education.

Here is the LINSU full Release below:

Conscious students, civil servants, teachers, faculties, marketeers, street vendors, motorcyclists, members of the disable community, lumpen proletarians, revolutionary ideologues and solidarity allies, members of the fourth estate, distinguished ladies and gentlemen;
We bring you revolutionary felicitations from the LIBERIA NATIONAL STUDENTS UNION (LINSU), the single most bastion of hope for over one million Liberian students, home and abroad, and the historical barometer of national consciousness since its revolutionary birth in 1952.
For sixty-seven (67) years, the National Students Movement has exhibited an undying spirit and never relenting revolutionary valor in the face of turbulent, brutal and backward forces of reaction such as class enemies, micro-nationalists, despotic and rebel governments in order to fulfill its sacrosanct responsibility of driving the students’ agenda to better the lot of all Liberian students in order for them to cultivate the requisite educational advancement for self, family and national development. The present leadership of LINSU remains forever committed to this moral revolutionary mandate, the upholding of which many of its comrades have become martyrs.
Against this backdrop, the LIBERIA NATIONAL STUDENTS’ UNION, the legal parent body of all students and student organizations in the geographical perimeter of the Republic of Liberia, has been following and engaging authorities at the Ministry of Education and the Government of Liberia in general with the anticipation of finding a panacea to the growing predicaments confronting Liberia’s Educational sector. LINSU has meanwhile come to realize the unwillingness of the MOE under the leadership of Min. D. Ansu Sonii to professionally and amicably remedy the National and International embarrassment confronting the Educational Sector of Liberia which are chiefly due to poor leadership. On the other hand, LINSU has realized that the Liberian economic downturn is a major factor in the sickening affairs of EDUCATION SECTOR in Liberia.
The National Executive Committee (NEC) which runs the day to day affairs of LINSU has resolved to seek the immediate RESIGNATION/DISMISSAL of the proven inept and arrogant Min. D. Ansu Sonii of the Ministry of Education on the following counts:

1. The inability of MOE to intervene in the staggering hike in tuitions and fees of academic institutions, thereby resulting to the lowest students’ enrollment since 2005. According to statistics gathered from our recent SAMPLE SURVEY conducted by LINSU’s Bureau of Education and Scholarship affecting academic institutions in Urban and Rural Liberia, enrollment in schools this academic year (2019/2020) has unimaginably depreciated to a staggering 40% as compared to the immediate past academic year (2018/2019). Some prominent school systems such as the Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, Adventist, Episcopal, and the Lutheran school systems, to name few, have been affected by the above statistics. J.J. Roberts United Methodist School, Levi C. Williams, Len Miller High School, Seven Days Adventist High School ELWA Junction, Saint Teresa Convent Catholic School, Calvary Baptist Church School System, Saint Peter Lutheran School, United Dawah Ummah, Muslim Congress and Government owned William V. S. Tubman High School, among others; have unjustifiably increased tuitions and fees.
2. Reduction of allowances of International Scholars by 75%.
   MOE, under the leadership of Min. Sonii has unduly succeeded in the reduction of allowance of Liberian Students in the Kingdom of Morocco from 400.00USD and 450.00USD to an infinitesimal 100.00USD. This, in our view is tantamount to modern slavery and broad day wickedness, intended to discourage would be future scholars.
3. Refusal to execute mandates of the Educational Reform Act of 2011. Section 4.6 b. iii of the act mandates the Minister of Education to constitute the National Education Advisory Board (NEAD) upon the approval of the President. MOE led by Min. Sonii has absolutely thwarted this Legislation by totally disregarding its existence. We view this as a monumental arrogance and total disrespect of the rule of law.
4. The inability of MOE to Monitor and Evaluate both private and public schools, thereby resulting to the proliferation of substandard Educational facilities in our academic environment.
5. The lack of logistics for Public High Schools since the ascendency of D. Ansu Sonii to his current Ministerial portfolio. Public High Schools visited by LINSU predominantly complained of the absolute lack of support from GOL since his arrival at the Ministry.
6. Inconsistency in Public Schools tuitions and other fees. Information in our possession reveals inconsistency even in Government operated schools such as C.H. Dewey Central High School, Samuel D. Hill Public School and Jenneh Public High School. Located in Bomi County, they share a difference of over fifteen thousand Liberian dollars(L$15,000) as tuition and other fees yet the Minister has done absolutely nothing to address the problem.
7. Under Minister Sonii’s watch as Minister of Education, Public Schools Administrations have resulted into rudimentary forms of Education, thereby requesting students to carry arm chairs, test fees, among other fees before their enrollment.
8. Though in the 2017 General and Presidential Elections President Weah campaigned on account of paying all 12th graders WASSEC fees and won, unfortunately; schools are still charging students in Public Schools for WASSEC fees yet and the MOE under Minister Sonii has taken no action.
9. The creation of new Educational Districts which is against the Education Law of 2011 and the appointment of unqualified CEOs and DEOs as per the CSA law.
10. After informing the Public on OK FM recently that no school will be forced to pay their tuition and other fees in United States Dollars it has also been identified through our research that B.W. Harris Episcopal High School is acting in violation while Minister Sonii sits supinely doing nothing except being interested in his salary while parents and students suffer.
    The above stated reasons are quite sufficient to abort the proven political gatecrasher in Min. sonii. LINSU wants to inform H.E President George Manneh Weah that any attempt to shield his Minister, he should be prepared for the wrath of the National Students Movement representing over one million students and by extension the Liberian People.
    Meanwhile, LINSU unequivocally mandates the Government of Liberia to put its acts together in pulling the bull of the worsening economy by the horn and calling it to order in the soonest possible time. The effects of this backward economy on the educational sector cannot be condoned anymore. The future of any country is predominantly dependent on the progress of education in that country. Government needs to develop and workout practicable economic policies that will put money in the hands of parents to school their children in the immediacy. It also needs to make real enforcement on education to bring criminal institutions to book, increase support to education, work with MOE to address the plights of the scholars in MORROCCO, and do everything possible to increase enrolment and improve educational quality.
    Finally, and by extension, LINSU is concerned about the ongoing NONSENSE in Liberia called SALARY HARMONIZATION and will in the coming days trash it, checkmates its proponents, and demand an immediate halt and reversal to status quo ante through a mass civil servants’ action.
    In the cause of social justice peace and academic freedom, the struggle must continue!!!!!
    Done and issued on this 16th Day of September, 2019.

Signed: ________________________
Isaac Muapoh
Secretary General

Approved: _____________________¬¬¬¬¬¬
Mohammed Kamara
President