Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has
criticized activist of free education in Nigeria, claiming they were not
well informed about what it meant to give free education at all levels.
Speaking at the 2014 series of the Obafemi Awolowo Free Education
Lecture organised by the Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife, Fashola said free education could only be
guaranteed at the primary and secondary level arguing that education
ends at secondary level, other activities at tertiary level can be
described as specialisation.
He said, “What is the definition of education that must be free and which the state is duty bound to provide, and which the citizen is duty bound to take? These questions are important; those who chant Awolowo’s name in the quest for free education at all levels, have probably not done the cost of educating one child at primary level, let alone secondary and tertiary level levels which some people are clamouring for.
“And if these omissions by the protagonists are enough, they cannot provide any data about the number of beneficiaries, yet they say Awolowo would simply have done it. This is where they display their ignorance of the man whose name they use in vain to make loud attention-seeking noise.”
He, however, asked people to stop comparing present educational policies to that of Awolowo.
Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, and Dean of Faculty of Education, Prof. Philip Jegede, on his own part urged all levels of government to make education a priority.
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola
He said, “What is the definition of education that must be free and which the state is duty bound to provide, and which the citizen is duty bound to take? These questions are important; those who chant Awolowo’s name in the quest for free education at all levels, have probably not done the cost of educating one child at primary level, let alone secondary and tertiary level levels which some people are clamouring for.
“And if these omissions by the protagonists are enough, they cannot provide any data about the number of beneficiaries, yet they say Awolowo would simply have done it. This is where they display their ignorance of the man whose name they use in vain to make loud attention-seeking noise.”
He, however, asked people to stop comparing present educational policies to that of Awolowo.
Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, and Dean of Faculty of Education, Prof. Philip Jegede, on his own part urged all levels of government to make education a priority.
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