{"id":144398,"date":"2022-02-04T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=144398"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:33:47","slug":"declare-state-of-emergency-on-school-infrastructure-reps-tell-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/04\/declare-state-of-emergency-on-school-infrastructure-reps-tell-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Declare state of emergency on school infrastructure, Reps tell FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision of state governments to abdicate the responsibility of investing in basic education in their domains was the subject of debate by stakeholders during the National Education Summit which ended in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The summit organised by Human Development Initiatives had as its theme: \u2018Building qualitative, inclusive and adaptive education system: Meeting modern day education challenges in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education, Julius Ihonvbere, demanded the declaration of state of emergency in school infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The stakeholders said a good number of states do not appear enthusiastic about funding basic education as they do not access funds in the Universal Basic Education Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Ihonvbere said the absence of policy consistency, poor funding and inadequate basic facilities was a major challenge in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>While expressing concerns over state governments\u2019 refusal to access their matching grants from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/ex-ubec-boss-prof-gidado-tahir-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UBEC<\/a>, he said that many state governments which had collected counterpart funding for education do not use it judiciously.<\/p>\n<p>Ihonvbere said, \u201cThere is a problem of absence of policy consistency and even when we have good policies there is very limited follow up and at times poor funding of those programmes so that they would have deep root and consistency and replication within the system. There is a weak administrative system in our school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government has their own schools which they are taking care of. But how can a state government stay for eight years without accessing its funds with UBEC? They don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd some, when they access the money, they don\u2019t deploy it to the right place. They budget money for education but they don\u2019t release it for education, though not all the states as some are doing very well like Gombe, Borno, Lagos, Ekiti and Ogun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want an emergency to be declared on school infrastructure. The children are schooling under very dangerous buildings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, people who manage the schools themselves need to be reeducated. There is a need for special programmes to bring teachers and instructors into the digital age. You cannot teach what you don\u2019t have or know. There is no reason why we can\u2019t digitise schools and provide basic facilities in the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A former Provost of Osun State College of Education, Labayo Kazeem, said the nation\u2019s education sector was not lacking in policy but in its policy implementation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, governors were not willing to provide infrastructure, adding that adult education was completely dead in most states.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThey are more concerned about other things that are happening apart from investing in education. We don\u2019t need development partners to tell us what to do right.We are not lacking in policy. They are so comprehensive. We have joined every convention. Education is the only thing that can drive development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we must develop as a nation, the students must be given the opportunity to excel. That is why when we go anywhere in the world we can adapt. 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