Nigerians are involved in yet another round of righteous anger over the revelation from the Federal Poly Nekede female graduate over how she managed to graduate from school.
Are Nigerians pretending not to know that government owned tertiary institutions are mostly cesspools of corruption, where sex-for-grades is the norm and female students suffer a worrying level of sexual harrasment?!
The last time I checked the National Assembly had passed the Sex-for-grades Prohibition bill. I beleive President Buhari will sign the bill.
We need real solutions!
We won’t make progress as a people when we continue to moralise on issues which can be solved through painstakingly executing the right policies and laws.
Hasn’t it become very clear that tertiary education has become a hustle which leave graduates as crude as they came in, after years in the university or polytechnic?
I once had a discussion with the former chairman of NHRC, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu years back, about tertiary education funding and he mentioned that unlike in the US where alumni of schools donate huge figures to their schools individually, a good number of Nigerian graduates don’t look back becuase university education is a hustle for both the guys and babes. Last year, a UI trained US-based doctor made a staggering donation to the Ibadan College of Medicine because he appreciates the training he received. Will this Nekede graduate return to donate money to the school where for whatever reasons, she used what she had to get what she needed?
Do we run an economy where young students can easily get decent jobs and school at the same time? When will we stop the love for paper qualification? There actually are different questions we can ask ourselves as a people.
We actually should be asking ourselves how to better fund and manage tertiary institutions in order to change their current status as citadels of corruption which hardly produce enlightened and civilised individuals!
The sad part is that it’s only BAT out of the leading presidential candidates, who has said something new about helping students fund their education with the promise of a students/education bank, others are talking about stopping ASUU strikes without clear-explanation on how they will raise funds to run universities smoothly.
Each time Nigerians shout and moralise on solvable problems, I beleive they actually love our society remaining backward, so they have opportunities to display their hypocritical, “I better pass my neighbours”, mentality.
The Nekede graduate’s statement on her success formular should get us thinking as a people. But as usual, we prefer to pretentiously go on another round of holy anger while demanding that women especially, be Saintly in corrupt systems.
I read the laughable statement from the Nekede poly’s management on the viral clip and my advice is that the lady gets a good lawyer or even approach FIDA for help. If the school takes actions which she finds detrimental to her future plans, she should seek legal redress.
