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NANS Deplores Govt's Policy On Hostels
By Charity Ibanga
THE National Association Of Nigerian Students (NANS) and The Lagos State College Of Primary Education (LACOPED) Students' Union Government have both condemned the Federal Government's plan to disengage from the operation of hostels for students of tertiary educational institutions.
At a press briefing in Lagos during the week, the co-ordinator of NANS zone D, Lawal Damilare said the planned action by the government would be counter productive as it would have a multiplying effect on other facilities on the campuses. "The government's style is to first privatise the hostels, then later, the same reason will be re-echoed to privatise the laboratories, lecture theatres, health and medical centres, libraries, even administrative buildings and what follows is the final privatization of the education sector."
To him, a good hostel accommodation is never a luxury but a necessity for good quality education. He said that the government is only interested in giving the educational sector to private individuals and their political friends.
According to him, while the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) minimum standard for education is 26 percent of the budget, President Olusegun Obasanjo has only allocated 1.83 per cent with four times of that amount going into the maintenance of Aso Rock in Abuja. He said it took the "struggle of NANS and particularly Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) before it was a little bit adjusted to 4.5 per cent in 2003.
On his part, the President, LACOPED Student Union, Mr. Adekunle Adeyeye said: "It is a common phenomenon peculiar to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his people to make education a luxury, making it an exclusive right of the rich at the expense of the poor masses."
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