The Ministry of Education has assured students in public schools across the country that they are not required to pay utility fees.

The assurance comes after some teacher trainees threatened to sue principals of Colleges of Education because authorities at their schools have been billing them for electricity and other utility charges.

The Ashanti and Brong Ahafo sectors of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) last week threatened legal action against principals of Colleges of Education who are still billing students on utilities.

The trainees say they will resist the payments since they have not been sanctioned by government.

Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Education, Francis Gbadago, says government’s stance remains the same until a committee reviewing the policy on exemption of teacher trainees’ from paying utilities completes its work.

He revealed the committee, which is chaired by the Deputy Minister of Power, has membership from the National Council for Tertiary Education, Vice Chancellors Ghana, ECG, Conference of Rectors of Polytechnics, the Ministry of Education and the student body.

Meanwhile, students at some teacher training schools say they have not had power since March this year and they have been forced to make contributions towards the purchase of prepaid electricity.