University Education Not For Everybody, This Is The Truth –Governor

University Education Not For Everybody, This Is The Truth –Governor

Many Nigerians may find this unpalatable, but one of their governors has stated equivocally that university education is not for all of them.

The governor in question is David Umahi of Ebonyi State.

Umahi took this stand while reacting to the lingering strike of university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Umahi who is also the chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum, David Umahi, held that it was  unreasonable for President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to borrow over N1 trillion to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

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A report by Punch  also credits the governor as observing that education and security were the most challenging problems bedevilling Nigeria, also pointed out that the nation’s education’s system was not properly articulated, adding that the basic education any nation strives to attain is secondary or vocational education.

, “Our basic problems in this country remain security, health and education. Let me say a little in education which is in our public domain and which is the ASUU. I think that our education system is not being properly articulated.

“University education is not for everybody and that is the truth. The basic education every country strives to attain is secondary school and vocational schools. These are the basic schools and when you have these qualifications, you will able to use it either to start up something or to be able to use it to be employed.

“There is a need to review our educational system. It mustn’t be for everybody. I am not ashamed that I have a first degree and my deputy is a PhD holder; it doesn’t matter. It is what you bring on board. So, I cannot see how we cannot sit down with our ASUU leaders and iron out this problem about the ongoing strike.

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“I have read on social media, newspapers how students got into trouble just by sitting at home or engaging in means of keeping themselves busy instead of being in schools.

“There is no way Nigeria will go and borrow N1.1tn to meet ASUU’s demand, it’s quite unreasonable. Are their demands genuine? Yes. But we can start little by little.

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“There must be commitment on the side of both parties that look, ”ASUU is not asking for this to take to their houses” so to say. It’s asking for it for our children, to better the infrastructure, to better the lecturers and the students. Yes, but we can start with a fraction of that and then have a programme that will run on the platform of sincerity to address all the lots.