No acquittals, no subsidies
OP/ED WE have it on good authority that the third quarter school subsidies worth K3,134,125 for Central are now ready to be distributed to the five districts this week. We have it on good authority, too, that no school will get its share of subsidies if it has not submitted acquittals for its subsidy allocations for last year and for the first quarter of this year. A team from the provincial education division has issued stern instructions that no subsidy cheque ought to be paid unless and until acquittals are in. “No acquittals, no subsidy,” provincial education adviser Titus Hatagen is quoted as saying in The National today. Hatagen appealed yesterday to school head teachers and boards of management to ensure subsidy acquittals are in. He has asked church agencies to help in this. The instructions will, of course, not go down well with many school headmasters and their governing boards. They are going to argue that the money is allocated by the government for their schools