Cleric seeks improved funding for nation’s education sector

President of Amazing Love Assembly, Bishop Amaechi Nwachukwu has said that Nigeria must adequately fund the nation’s education sector to guarantee its future.

He said improved infrastructure, skills acquisition, training and partnerships were required to move the country’s education to another level, stressing that efforts should be geared towards restoring lost societal values.

Nwachukwu said that concrete growth and development would remain a mirage without a conscious effort at providing the right ingredients to youths, explaining that quality of teaching and learning, as well as the quality of school leadership, are crucial to sustained growth.

Speaking at the fifth graduation ceremony of the Amazing Love International Schools, Emene Enugu, the Cleric added that education of the youths was crucial to making concrete development, said however that such must be tailored towards the values of the society.

His words: “Every country in this world knows that education is not free. There is no nation that has become great without education. I am however amazed that Africa and Nigeria which are a critical part of the world have relegating education to the background and people talk as though we have nothing to offer.

“It is amazing that these people who are the foundations of knowledge are being seen as though we have nothing because we have been colonized by western education and we do not have a way of growing our own education system

“We are on a daily basis denying our identities and things that distinguish us. We have denied our orientation and values system. We need to know who we are; we need to know that as Africans we should know who we are. I don’t need to take my mother who is old to the Old People’s home.

“When a child is delivered, I don’t need to have a nanny because we have a social fabric system. These things are not in our character. We should hold on to what is good in our system and culture and not emulating anything we see in the name of education.

“Education both those provided by the public and private has come to stay, but our policies must tend towards strengthening it in such a way that it was ready to provide immediate solutions to challenges.

Nwachukwu told the graduating students to ensure they do not lose what they learnt from the school in the valley of conflicting societal values, stressing that although the society had been inflicted with “the worship of money, but money cannot buy honesty, integrity and good virtues.”

He commended the graduating students for living above board, stressing that the admission, which the three of them had gained into the university to study Medicine and Computer Engineering testifies to the good standard of the school.