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Free Education or Free Deception in Taraba?

"If free education is to be meaningful, it must deliver quality, not just enrollment numbers. Taraba’s children deserve more than empty slogans, they deserve schools that can truly prepare them for the future."


By: Kamal Hammajo | September 8th, 2025

In Taraba State today, “free education” has become the most abused slogan of governance. It is trumpeted at every gathering as if it were a magic wand, yet what is happening in our classrooms is a silent tragedy. The policy, in its present form, is not reforming our schools, it is ruining them.

The loudest marketers of this so-called achievement are the Governor’s aides, but their hypocrisy is the biggest scandal. They clap in public, then sneak their children into private schools, many of them paid for with State funds. If free education is truly working, why are the children of those who boast about it not sitting in the same classrooms with the children of the poor?

Governor Agbu Kefas must stop listening to these carefully polished lies. He should step out of the comfort of Government House, drive to the nearest town, walk into the public schools, and see the reality for himself: broken desks, absent teachers, illegal levies, and pupils learning under leaking roofs. The people of Taraba are tired of false promises and empty slogans while their children’s future is being wasted. Governor, if you truly believe in this free education, enroll your own children in these public schools and let the policy speak for itself.

Free education has its advantages, it removes barriers and allows poor children to go to school. But in a system crippled by corruption and mismanagement, it quickly turns into a curse. Without funds to maintain quality, schools collapse, teachers are demoralized, and students graduate without skills. This is why today, about 68 percent of students in Taraba are enrolled in private schools. Parents are voting with their pockets, because they know quality matters more than empty promises. If Government Schools are truly good, people will gladly pay to enroll their children.

It is better to fix the schools, restore discipline, and reactivate reasonable school fees than to keep deceiving the public with “free education” that delivers nothing. A society without sound education is a society preparing itself for banditry, terrorism, and chaos. If nothing changes, the very foundation of Taraba will collapse under the weight of ignorance.

If free education is to be meaningful, it must deliver quality, not just enrollment numbers. Taraba’s children deserve more than empty slogans, they deserve schools that can truly prepare them for the future.

The choice before the government is simple: face the truth and fix education, or continue to sell deception while the future of Taraba burns.

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