Stop electing leaders without education to public offices – Sanusi

Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Saturday advised Nigerians
to stop electing leaders without education into public offices.

He said Nigerians in the past had elected or chosen to elect
leaders who had no education and thus could not give an education
when they were elected.

The former Central Bank of Nigeria governor spoke at the 6th
convocation ceremony of Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, where he
was conferred an Honorary Degree of Science along side the Alaafin
of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III.

He said: “We have to take an interest in the quality of our
leaders and representatives in the level of education. If you look
around this country at many levels of leadership, we have elected
and we have chosen to elect people who do not have an education.
And because they are not educated, they cannot give an
education.

“We need to lay more emphasis on the quality of people we elect
to executive and legislative offices and we need to make sure that
those to whom we entrust policy are themselves educated and know
the value of education.”

The Emir also advised the Federal Government to invest the
trillions of naira it was spending on subsidising petroleum
products on educating the young ones in the country.

According to him, the money spent on building roads, bridges and
trains should first be used to educating the young ones, noting
that development was first and foremost about people.

Sanusi said: “Let us invest more in education and let us give up
some of the privileges that we have such as the trillions we are
spending subsiding petroleum products. That money should go into
educating our young people.

“We are spending too much monies on roads and bridges and trains
and too little money educating our children. Let us educate these
young people and they will build the roads, train and bridges. We
do not need to invite the Chinese to do that for us. And until the
leadership at all levels in this country and the followership
understand that this is what is most important, because I do
understand sometimes that if a governor does not build roads or
bridges, he is seen as not have been performed by the people.

“We build all these highways and there are more pedestrians on
the highways than cars and those pedestrians are most often people
without education and help. Development is first and foremost about
people.”

He also blamed northern leaders for failing to provide the
enabling environment for children in north to attend schools.

Earlier in his remarks, Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof.
Huseyin Sert, said 21 students were awarded First Class degree out
of the 365 graduands.

He said: “In this 2017/2018 session, we are glad to celebrate
our 6th convocation ceremony with a total number of 365 graduands
made up of 21 first class honours, 67 Second Class Upper, 96 Second
Class Lower and two Third Class.

“Indeed, the turnover of graduands from the university has
justified our vision and mission statement of producing quality
graduates who shall be full of knowledge, skills and experience to
contribute to technological and economic development nationally and
internationally.

“The university expresses its gratitude to all those that
contributed to the success of this occasion which enabled us to
actualise our dream of being one of the best tertiary institutions
in the world. We particularly felicitate with both graduating
students and their parents for their high sense of duty and
commitment in making their stay in the university a fruitful
one.”

Also, the Alaafin of Oyo commended the institution for the
award, saying that it will spur him to do more for society.

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