The National President of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke, has lamented that the
government has abandoned education, vowing that the union will soon sponsor a
bill at the National Assembly making it mandatory for public officials to train
their children in Nigerian public schools.
He said that Nigerian leaders had
killed local education and looked for other countries to send their children to
study.
Osodeke said ASUU would mobilise
Nigerians to march to the National Assembly to demand that the bill be passed
for all elected public officers to send their children to Nigerian public
schools.
Osodeke stated this in his speech
at a one-day ‘state of the nation summit’ organised by the Bauchi zone of the
union with the theme, ‘Nigeria: The state of the nation’ was held at the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi on Thursday.
He said, “Today, the leaders of
this country and those who control our wealth have completely abandoned
education. Today, this country is reaping the work of our abandoning education
and what do they do as an alternative?
“They have created avenue for
themselves in such a way that having abandoned and killed our education, they look
for somewhere else where people invested in education to send their children,
their wards and relations.
“That is where we are and as a
union, we are having one proposition we have put forward. I have asked the
committee on ICT to work on it. We are going to storm the National Assembly
with a bill which will be titled: ‘bring back your children’.
“We are going to mobilise the students, the
NGOs and all of us will storm the National Assembly and we will ensure that
that bill is passed.
“When you get our resources, your
children must be in Nigerian schools whether it is primary, secondary or
tertiary institutions.
“I’m sure if all the children of
all these our so-called people are in this country, our education will not be
where it is today; they will pay attention to it.”
According to him, the insecurity
being faced across the country is as a result of abandoning education by the
leaders.
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