Educationists have advised the government and the populace to have reorientation on the importance of good education by playing the roles expected of them in advancing the course of education in the country. They gave this admonition while featuring on the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State radio station, FUNAAB Radio 89.5FM live interactive programme, Boiling Point. According to the Head, Department of Psychology, Guidance and Counselling, Federal College of Education (FCE), Osiele, Abeokuta, Dr. Joseph Filani, the government should priortise education by giving more attention to it than any other sector. He said the government needed to allocate 26 percent of its annual budget to the education sector so as to get it right. Dr. Filani stressed that the government should deploy more material resources to make public schools compete favourably with their private counterparts in the country.
“Most of our politicians aspiring for political offices are not going there to better the lot of the citizens, but to satisfy their selfish interest and having no clear picture of what they want to do for the society. We need to review our Electoral Act so that the people can vote for candidates of their choice”, he added. Meanwhile, A Principal Lecturer from the Department of Social Studies, FCE, Osiele, Abeokuta, Dr. Amos Adediran, said the government and individuals should change their attitudes toward education in order to transform the sector and develop the country to be at the same pace with other nations of the world. “We need to be enlightened and open our eyes to education to discourage our youths from criminal activities and to know that education is very important in every aspect of human endeavour”, he stated further.