Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has slammed the Federal Government for funding Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives’ Harvard Kennedy School of governance school programme.
The speaker posted pictures of him attending the programme on Tuesday. It sparked public outrage with people describing it as insensitive since the government has failed to resolve the over five months strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The speaker later apologised.
Obi in a statement said it smacked on insensitivity that “Our students and future leaders, are idling away at homes or in some undesirable places, while our government is spending millions in foreign currency, supposedly training public office holders in Ivy League universities across the world”.
According to him, “Such misplaced priorities and government misuse of public funds is no longer acceptable, while the future of our youths are being neglected.
“Through such policy neglect, we are unwittingly breeding some societal misfits who will someday embark on vendettas & take revenge on our society.
“As a matter as adaptive leadership, such trainings being sponsored with public funds should stop forthwith, until all our schools start functioning optimally. Meanwhile, such trainings if need be, must be mandated to happen only within Nigeria”.
