A former executive chairman/chief executive officer of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna, yesterday pleaded with wealthy Nigerians to invest in education.
He said an ignorant population is a liability to any nation. He said Nigerians with means to sponsor the education of their children may endanger their families if the children of their neighbours do not have the same opportunity.
Haruna made the plea at the commissioning of a boulevard in honour of the Emir of Lafia, Justice Sidi Bage Muh’d in Havilla University, Nde Ikom in Cross River State
He said: “Since an ignorant population is not only a liability to the nation but equally constitute a huge security threat to our existence, let me call on Nigerians with means to individually and in collaboration or partnership to join hands and establish standard educational institutions that can provide quality entrepreneurial and affordable education as a societal social responsibility.
“Remember, if you have means to sponsor education of your children alone, your neighbour’s children without the same opportunity will not allow you and your family to live safely and happily in no distant time.”
“Nigerians with means to individually and in collaboration or partnership to join hands and establish standard educational institutions that can provide quality entrepreneurial and affordable education as a societal social responsibility.”
Haruna said more investments were needed in education because most public institutions in Nigeria have become overstretched.
He said the affected institutions have dilapidated and outdated infrastructure and equipment.
He added: “It is no longer news that the carrying capacities of most of our tertiary public institutions are overstretched and are burden with dilapidated and outdated infrastructure and equipment.
