Do this and Education will be OK in Nigeria - Prof Adeyeye

Senator representing Osun Central senatorial
district, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, Monday advocated
50 per cent reduction in the earnings of all
Nigerian elected officers for the purpose of
adequate funding of education.
Adeyeye, who made this call while briefing
journalists in Abuja, said, he believed that the
whimsical demand of the Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU) was a reaction to their
earnings, which he said were not justifiable.
He also advocated the contribution of five per
cent of the earnings of all Nigerian workers for
the funding of the education as education
taxes, adding that any embezzlement of funds
meant for education should be accompanied
by capital punishment.
Adeyeye, a Professor of Molecular Biology,
who lectured in the United States for decades,
also said the National Assembly should
henceforth begin the appropriation of 26 per
cent of Nigeria's current revenue to
education.
"First, the National Assembly of Nigeria should
henceforth appropriate at least 26 per cent of
Nigeria's current revenue to education alone.
Second, Government in Nigeria, especially the
Federal Ministry of Education, has been
denigrated into a beast of burden. The
metastasis of asphyxiating bureaucracy
demands the streamlining of the endless
parastatals that drain resources while making
little or no contribution to national well-being
and progress.
"Third, to raise revenue for funding a national
redemption programme in education, all
imports should attract a mandatory education
tax of one per cent. Fourth, beginning from
January 1, 2014 till December 31, 2018, all
workers in Nigeria must contribute five per
cent of their income as education taxes.
Embezzling any amount of these revenues
targeted for education should be taken as an
act of treason.
"This should attract the most severe penalty
such as impeachment, imprisonment and
perhaps death penalty. Fifth, the costs for
running the offices of all elected and
appointed political office holders should
immediately be pruned by 50 per cent.
"Something tells me that the implacable
demands by ASUU are fuelled by resentment at
the cult of obscene privileges which Nigerian
politicians have become. But our task is to
curb needless privileges rather than add to
them," he said.
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