Former Interim Nationwide Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, has recognized mass schooling as the simplest resolution to Nigeria’s persistent insecurity challenges.
Akande made the assertion on Friday whereas talking with journalists through the celebration of his 87th birthday, at his nation dwelling in Ila, Osun State.
He warned that the declining customary of schooling in Nigeria poses a severe menace to the nation’s future, noting that graduates skilled below poor academic methods can be unable to compete globally with their counterparts from nations with superior studying establishments.
In line with him, insecurity throughout the nation starting from terrorism to banditry and kidnapping can solely be addressed by way of sustained funding in schooling.
“The reply to insecurity is mass schooling. Obafemi Awolowo launched mass schooling about 70 years in the past, round 1955, and that’s the reason we’re not killing ourselves within the South-West,” Akande mentioned.
He added, “Now, have a look at Boko Haram, banditry and kidnapping. Let individuals research very deeply. Your era can’t eradicate insecurity fully, however it may be step by step eradicated in case you undertake deep, mass, common schooling.”
Akande confused that schooling is what separates human beings from animals, arguing that lack of schooling breeds violence and ethical decay.
“When you’re not educated, you might be like an animal. You don’t thoughts killing individuals; you could be a assassin and never be ashamed of it,” he mentioned.
