Senate may stop public officials’ kids from schooling abroad,I will love this

IF a bill proposed by Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed succeeds, children of public office holders would be restricted from schooling abroad, except for specialized programmes or courses not offered in the nation’s educational institutions.

The bill among other objectives is aimed at restoring the nation’s public educational system by discouraging public officials from sending their children and wards to foreign schools.

Besides, senators have accused some committee heads of using their positions to influence the implementation of only constituency projects in their senatorial districts.

Mohammed noted that aside from neglect suffered by public schools, the desire of many public officials to educate their children overseas had been a major source of capital flight and brain drain. He stressed that in this regard, there was the need for the Senate to adopt drastic measures to rescue the ailing educational system.

“Today, in this digital age, the pupils sit on bare floor. You then ask, what manner of leaders of tomorrow are we producing? You may also ask, where are the children of senators, honourable members, ministers and governors? If our children attend such schools, can we afford to leave them in such a sorry state?”

The senator representing Kano Central stated that the country’s educational system had continued to suffer serious setbacks because political office holders and policy makers had given an impression that they had no confidence in the quality of education.

He described the bill as a patriotic call for sacrifice to restore confidence to the country’s educational sector.

Source:Guardian

that minister should better be careful. their are some toes you just cant touch, except you want to end up where you wont like. there are rich people and there are rich people.
and i am not against ministers or any other person sending their children abroad if they can afford it.
and another major reason why there different scholaships is to send the children abroad to gain knownledge, then come back to Nigeria to help develop our contry with the knoweldge they must have gained. and that is why they monitor their academic progresss over there. some dont come back anyway. and some that came back, we are not ready to pay what they are asking for.