Lamido Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has called on the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end their ongoing dispute.
In a three-day Transforming Education Summit side event interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, Sanusi made the proposal.
Advertisements
Sanusi suggested that the ASUU strike might be resolved through communication, pointing out that the union needed to understand that the longer it was out of school, the more the students would suffer as a result.
“The government needs to acknowledge that teachers are people; we live in a nation with significant inflation, and salaries don’t get instructors very far; teaching is a career that needs to be respected from the lowest to the highest.
“Our educational staff members also work in the healthcare industry, but we are unaware of the fact that we have lost a great number of academics to PhD programs abroad.
Advertisements
Many medical professionals who were employed in Nigeria have left, he claimed.
The 14th Emir of Kano, the previous CBN chief, claimed that the economy had suffered as a result of brain drain.
“We need physicians and teachers in Nigeria because we have spent a lot of money training them, thus it is a crisis.
Advertisements
He stated, “I believe it can be resolved in good faith. Both sides (ASUU and Federal Government) have a stake in coming down and having a discourse, making compromises.
Sanusi also asked the government to make investments in education to support teachers in being at their best, noting that in the past, teachers enjoyed great respect from society, but that “nowadays, many underrate the value of education.
“As a result of our society’s extreme materialism, we now have people in positions of leadership who place little importance on education.
“These days, everything revolves on money, and instructors are despised because they lack resources.
“The majority of these instructors had the choice to enroll in other programs, but they opted to educate our children and support our society.
Therefore, he said, “We need to examine our values and return to our old values of appreciating teachers because if we treat them with respect, we will learn a lot from them.
3 comments