The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has tasked the National Assembly to establish a law to prevent government officials from sending their wards abroad for schooling
The call was made on Thursday by ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke during a reconvened meeting with the Federal Government in Abuja.
Osedeke, in the meeting conciliated by the Minister of Labour and Employment, demanded that government officials must be compelled to enroll their children in Nigerian Universities.
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He emphasized that forcing government officials to enroll their children in public schools in Nigeria would cause them to fix the institutions.
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He said, “We are hoping that the government will make it mandatory that if you accept any government appointment, your children must attend universities in Nigeria.
“The National Assembly must formulate a law that if you take an appointment, your children must study in the country. If you know that your children cannot be here, then there should be no need to accept government appointments”.
Prof Osodeke further expressed disappointment in the 2022 budget, stressing that the education sector has been totally neglected.
“Look at the budget we have seen recently, it is exactly the same thing we have been seeing. Nothing has changed. And this country is paying the high price for neglecting education – the banditry you see, the kidnapping and what have you, is because people are not being taken care of.
“That is why ASUU has been struggling so that public universities in the country will be revamped so that as our children go outside for learning, other children from other countries will also come here for the same purpose too and pay to this country in hard currency,” he said.
However, Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige stated that some of the requests by ASUU were within the reach of the Federal Government, stressing that the public universities will not be abandoned.
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