ASUU STRIKE AND GOVERNMENT GREED BY A S WASAGU. From the initial stage of this faceoff, federal government suppose to sign an implementable agreement. This portrays the highest level insincerity on government side, if betrayed such agreement. It is only in Nigeria that this is happening, in which the govt speak to media frontally eroding some fundamental informations contains in an agreement that she willingly signed. It is regrettable to note that the status of public education in Nigeria under the so called democratic regime is even in a much worse position now, than it was under military regimes. The situation of our public institutions in Nigeria is persistently relegated to the background and their status were grossly under- rated by government. The IMF and World Bank already designed an educational Blueprint for Nigeria, which translated into poor funding of education activities in the country. The UNESCO Recommendations of 26% allocation to education sector in the national budget of developing countries was totally dumped by Nigerian govt. The country is just too capitalistic to the extent that some of our countrymen and women have own private planes, which the cost of each can build a university! It is not a crime to own private planes, but what kind of a system has enabled an individual to own a private plane and another individual in the same country cannot afford to buy a bicycle? We have a situations where National assets, like our oil fields are being given to close members of the government; some of them quickly sell it for two to three billion dollars. There is nothing wrong in making alot of money, but not at the expense of the nation. We need a leadership that is elevated above narrow political calculations, especially in handling of sensitive political offices. Because it is no longer a secret that goverments at all levels in Nigeria confronted with an imminent collapse of an administration. It is no longer a secret that Nigerian government under Jonathan and his predecessors found themselves in a big financial quagmire and several management scandals owing to unprecedented imprudence and obtuse sense of public administration. -A S WASAGU
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:23:12 +0000
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