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       David-West Faults FG On Inadequate FundingOf Education
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 16, 2013, 7:25 am
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       Former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam
       David-West, yesterday, in Ibadan, said it was
       unfair for a government that budgeted N1
       billion each, for feeding the President and
       the Vice President, to say there was no
       money to fund education.
       David-West said it showed that there were
       more thieves in government than saints,
       claiming that the same government that
       spent N8 trillion illegally must be made by all
       Nigerians to fund public education.
       The former minister, who spoke at a town
       hall meeting organized by the Academic
       Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ibadan
       Chapter, also condemned the Coordinating
       Minister of the Economy and Minister of
       Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, over her
       comments on the funding of education.
       He said: “Any government that fails to invest
       in education is a vagabond government. The
       problem with Nigeria is that we have more
       thieves than saints in government. We drill
       over two million barrels of crude oil per day.
       Why should we be poor? ASUU is saying put
       money in education to improve education
       quality for our children and those yet
       unborn. The same government that does
       not have money for education budgeted N1
       billion each to feed the president and vice
       president for a year. Are they eating rock in
       Aso Rock? If you went to school without
       shoes ensure that your children have shoes.
       Good parents pray that their children must
       be better than them.”
       He argued that good academic qualification
       did not qualify one to be a good leader,
       saying, “It is not having university degree
       that makes you a good leader. Late Yar’Adua
       and Jonathan are the first set with university
       degrees but that has not translated to
       significant changes. Winston Churchill was
       not the best in his class but one of the best
       leaders the world has ever produced.”
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