Opinion: Who is the FG and why won’t they bail out the education sector? – Answers Here

Opinion: Who is the FG and why won’t they  bail out the education sector? – Answers Here

The Federal Government is a very interesting institution. It comprises Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Ijaw, Fulani, etc men and women. They make millions of dollars in salaries, over-invoicing, creative accounting, kickbacks, penned-robberies etc They bailed out the banks, they bailed out the power sector, but the education sector continues to lay in ruins.

The Federal Government has the money to spend, but somebody has to buy all the Louis Vuitton BMW’s that Europe has to offer. Specifically the bulletproof ones with the Gucci airbags. You know, the really expensive ones.

Who has a society where the children do not go to schools? The laughing stock of the international community. Recently, there was outrage when an American Senator, something Cruz remarked that the Obamacare IT department might be run by ‘Nigerian Email Scammers’. Literally he didn’t mean anything other than to smear Obama by the quip, and he got a lot of bad publicity from a section of the press. He then had to apologize because of the local Nigerian Americans living in that community and forming part of his electoral base and not even because he takes Nigerians living in Nigeria seriously.

Nobody can take Nigerians living in Nigeria seriously because Nigerians don’t take Nigerians living in Nigeria seriously. Our Big Brother Africa existence and our lack of motivation to do anything other than mate, speculate on politics and religion and procrastinate on much needed development.

The fuel subsidy corruption bonanza instituted by the FG under democratic regimes since Obasanjo has cost Nigeria in the trillions. The banking shareholders’ fraud cost another few trillion and the bailout is still being shouldered by AMCON, seemingly on a never ending journey of political, corporate and miscellaneous SCAMs.

Yet here are our lecturers. They only require air conditioning, better libraries, lab equipment, teaching hospitals, medicare, more allowances and things of that nature. There is a genuine desire to abandon handout (lecture notes) sales, and cash and/or ‘in-kind’ bribes for better grades. So many brilliant young Nigerian female students would love for this to happen, especially the scrapping of ‘in-kind’ bribes.

After all the ‘political’ Nigerian civil servant is bagging hundreds of millions if not, billions over a 4 to 8 year stretch, and if he has David Mark’s luck, a 12 year stretch. Speaking of Goodluck all of his people are well taken care of. There are “former” militant leaders that are making more money than Silicon Valley Tycoons. You can’t be half-intelligent and not protest in the face of such atrocities. What a lot of Nigerians don’t know is that most of these Nigerian elite have those same BMW’s figuratively or metaphorically. I once dined in the home of a lawyer representing a Governor indicted for corruption; we made use of Louis Vuittion cutlery. Yes I know, God punish poverty!

My only hope is that we Nigerians see it as a duty to revamp our society, not just our education sector. The whole value system and value chain is corrupted and it stinks like a rotting landfill to high heavens.We can’t leave  it up to the Federal Government alone. We all have to live a little better every day. The previous generation sat back and watched as the generation before that created a quasi hell for their children. Let us not act ignorant of the flames, there is fire on the mountain, we owe it to posterity to fetch a pail.

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