National Secretariat of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that it is working round the clock to sponsor a bill at the National Assembly titled ‘Bring Back Your Children’ to force Nigerian parents most especially those in positions of authority whose children are comfortably studying abroad to come back to Nigeria higher institutions.
According to the National President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Students Unions and academics all over the country will be mobilized to the National Assembly to ensure its passage.
Speaking at a one-day seminar on the State of the Nation held at ATBU, Bauchi on Thursday, the ASUU National President said that, “Today, the leaders of this country and those who control our wealth have completely abandoned education. Today, this country is reaping the work of our abandoning education and what do they do as an alternative?
He added that “they have created an avenue for themselves in such a way that haven abandoned and killed our education, they look for somewhere else where people invested in education to send their children, their wards and relations. We are having one proposition we have put forward. We are going to storm the National Assembly with a Bill.”
According to him, “That Bill will be titled bring back your children and we are going to mobilise the students, the NGOs and all of us will storm the National Assembly and we will ensure that that bill is passed.
“Their children must be in Nigerian schools whether primary, secondary, university or colleges of education. When the bill is out, we will mobilize the students’ unions, the academics and the NGOs,” he said.
He further explained that the reason behind the bill was that when the children of influential personalities in the country are schooling in Nigeria, the education system would be in a better position and more attention would be paid to it.
He added that any country that abandons education will be creating insecurity for itself as education is considered the bedrock of development of any society stressing that “any country that abandons education is creating insecurity and that’s exactly where we are today.”
Speaking on the state of the nation, Osodeke lamented the level of insecurity in Nigeria, calling on all and sundry to work together in order to solve the problems.
While lamenting that things have gotten to a state where nobody seemed to be safe, the ASUU national leader said that most of his colleagues are now afraid to travel by the roads.
“Many of our colleagues are now afraid to travel by road. Many people are even afraid to visit their children at schools while some are afraid to send their children to schools,” he stressed.
“We have gotten to a stage that nobody is safe whether you are going by the road, by air, by sea or by train. You are all aware that recently, the bandits almost derailed a train. All of us need to work hard to change these trajectories,” he said.
The ASUU National President further commended the Zonal Coordinator of the union for organizing what he referred to as one of the best from the zone in a very long time
ASUU Bauchi zone consists of six universities of Plateau State University, Bokkos, University of Jos, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi.
Others included; Bauchi State University, Gadau, Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State and Gombe State University.
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