A civil rights group, Enough is Enough, has called on Nigerians to engage council chairmen and state lawmakers on the disbursement of budgetary allocation for education.
The Executive Director of the group, EIE, Yemi Adamolekun, expressed regret that Nigerians were not doing enough to make government invest hugely in to the education sector.
Adamolekun lamented that successive governments, over the years, had failed to give major attention to education.
“We should be engaging council chairmen and state lawmakers on budgetary provision for education and how they are disbursed. Why are we not making it mandatory for children to go to school? We have not prioritised it and government can get away with it because nobody is asking questions.”
“As a sector, successive governments over the years have not really prioritised education. Universities were shut down for eight months, how does the country want to grow when it is seen as normal for the next generation of workers, scientists, and developers to be sitting at home for eight months?
“We need to demand a lot more from the government about the situation, We need to talk about how much is allocated to the sector, how it is spent and what they are spending it on,” Adamolekun said.
She added that demanding more from the government on education should be a major topic in the country.
”Demanding more from the government on education should be an election topic As we move into the general elections, demanding more from the government on education should be an election topic in Lagos or any state when children are on the road and there is insufficient provision for the girl-child.
“We talk about the education budget; how is it spent? The government, unfortunately, like so much of pretty things, so we spent a lot of money on buildings. We should look at it again holistically.”
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