Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, has said the perennial strike embarked on by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has further fueled brain drain in the country. <\/p>\n
He urged the Federal Government and the University lecturers to resolve the lingering crisis between them.<\/p>\n
Sanusi spoke during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on the sidelines of a three-day Transforming Education Summit.<\/p>\n
Sanusi said ASUU strike could be addressed through dialogue, noting that the union needed to know that the longer it stayed out of school, it was the students who would suffer for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment needs to recognise that teachers are human beings; we are in a country with high level of inflation and salary don\u2019t take teachers anywhere and teaching is a profession that needs to be valued from lowest to highest.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur education employees are staff of health establishment too, what we don\u2019t know is that we have lost so many academics, many people who go abroad to do PhD don\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany medical doctors working in Nigeria have gone abroad,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
The former CBN boss, who was the 14th Emir of Kano, said brain drain had impacted negatively on the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a crisis because we need the doctors in Nigeria, we need the teachers in Nigeria because we have invested so much in training them.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth sides (ASUU and Federal Government) have a stake in sitting down and have a dialogue, making compromises, I believe it can be resolved in good faith,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Sanusi also urged the government to invest in education to encourage teachers to be at their best, adding that teachers were once highly respected in the society in time past, adding that \u201cbut now people underrate the value of education.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is happening now is that we have people who have moved into authority and who do not value education as the society is so much materialistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is all about money now and teachers are looked down upon because they don\u2019t have money.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of these teachers have option to do other courses but they chose to educate our children and contribute to our society.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we need to look at our value system and go back to our traditional value system of respecting teachers and if we treat them with respect, we will get a lot from them,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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