Tinubu’s ‘working vacation argument’ illiterate – Odinkalu

By Dickson Omobola Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Professor Chidi Odinkalu, has criticised the Presidency’s description of President Bola Tinubu’s absence from the country as a working vacation, saying the argument is being pushed by illiterates. Odinkalu also lamented that while the world was discussing education at the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, the Tinubu administration had no education policy. Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, he said the number of out-of-school children was skyrocketing in the country, while there was no visible education policy to present to the world. He said: “The world is discussing education. At the moment, as you probably know, there is a crisis with unity schools in Nigeria over the concessioning of King’s College.

There is no policy on the concessioning of publicly owned schools, by the way, so this is just drawn out of the heart. Actually, the current administration does not have an education policy. The last education policy was developed by Adamu Adamu as Minister of Education in 2017, and I don’t even think this administration has read it. They have not bothered to update it. “The number of out-of-school children is skyrocketing in the country, and we can’t even go to the United Nations and say, ‘This is our education policy. ’ That’s how bad it is. And suddenly, the President does not have a calling card on this because he cannot name any teacher who taught him, and he cannot name the schools he attended. Do you see the credibility crisis we are facing by attending an education summit at the United Nations General Assembly? ” On the absence of the President and his vice from the country, he said: “This is the first administration where the vice president and the…