Prominent legal luminary Mr Femi Falana (SAN)on satuday said that free education and other social amenities is possible if our resources is democratically managed and controlled
He said this at a public program organised by Revolutionary Socialist Movement and the Save Public Education Campaign in Abuja
The TOPIC of discussion at the event are NIGERIA AT 63 ANY HOPE FOR THE WORKING MASSES UNDER BAT GOVERNMENT?
SUB TOPIC: PUBLIC EDUCATION CRISIS, WHAT CAN BE DONE?
Femi Falana said the resources available to Nigeria Universities must be monitored and also the revenue shared to different state and local governments.
He said the piecemeal palliative must be rejected by the people if the federal government can afford billions of naira for National Assembly members for cars, allowances, renovation, and constutuency projects, Nigerians must not subsidies the rich.
He further lamented that Nigeria consistution didn’t permit consistency projects for legislators , that executives are to implement projects, but today its legislators are earning millions in the name of consistency projects without any tangible projects.
He ended by saying that “Nigeria consistution guarantee free education at all levels and urged students to return to tradition of fighting and reject the new regime of fees increment, he condemned fees increment across Nigeria universities
On his Part the Federal Capital Territory chairman of Africa Action Congress Comrade Bob Agnes said police brutality continues , he said police now move around with POS and arbitrary arrest of innocents youth across the country ” He urged Nigerians to stand up to defend thoer rights.
Dammy Owot, the secretary of Workers and Youth Solidarity Network, said, ” The new fees regime we send many students from poor and working class families out of school and call on Nigerian students to fight back. Because the claim by government that there’s no resources to fund education isn’t tenable ”
Dimeji Macaulay a socialist and trade union activist said there’s no solution to Nigeria problems under Tinubu, because Tinubu is extension of Buhari regime and also the crisis in Nigeria has escalated, a dollar is now moving to one thousand naira.
He said there’s a need for a united struggle of the oppressed people, and there’s needs to build a genuine political alternative to begin mass mobilisation against neo-liberalism in Nigeria.
