Last week, Akin Fadeyi, met some students loitering around a "buka" where himself and his friend had gone to eat. They're sent out of school due to their inability to pay their N2, 350 school fees. In the end, he got them back to school by helping them pay the fees.
Fadeyi said he was heartbroken when the school's principal told him: "Do you know these students are househelps to some very big people in this Abuja? They will send their own children to good private schools home and abroad but keep their house helps here with us and still refuse to pay their little school fees."
Yesterday, in a Facebook post, he gave an update.
He wrote: "Last week I posted a picture and story on how I had to intervene in the payment of the school fees of 10 secondary school students of GSS, Mabuchi in Abuja who were sent home for not been able to pay a fee we could ordinarily eat SUYA with, or "hangout" with.
"Naturally, I do many things that I don't post, because giving to the poor should be routine. Not that I'm rich but because if you're able to feed yourself, you must share with others who can't. If you're able to pay your child's school fees, you must consistently look out for some children whose fees haven't been paid owing to social economic inequalities.
"I posted that gesture to drive home the point that there's a compelling imperative out there to touch lives. Same way we should not haggle or quibble with a pepper and tomato seller until she sells to us at a price without profit for her. We'll smile away but she'll SIGH in pain!
"I want to say a BIG thank you to a very spirited Nigerian in the diaspora, Tope Ayedun who read my post and has offered to pick 2 more from the school and pay their school fees till they become secondary school graduands. Gàníyù Olówu and I went back there yesterday to break this news and the Principal was excited and almost got emotional."
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