By Anna Chibamu
NATIONAL Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda has echoed government’s position it was illegal for schools to send away students for non-payment of fees.
Mudenda was responding to Norton legislator Temba Mliswa who, in trying to explain the economic hardships being faced by fellow MPs, told the house they were having challenges educating their own children because of the paltry allowances they were being given.
The speaker was quick to advise the MP that schools were not permitted to send children back home for non-payment of fees.
“The children who are supposed to be at school and have been chased away, I believe by the headmasters; this is totally illegal.