The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is planning to sponsor a bill to National Assembly that will compel public servants and elected officials to take their children to public schools.
President of ASUU Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who made the disclosure, lamented that government has abandoned public education.
He was speaking at a one-day State of the nation Summit organised by the Bauchi zone of ASUU with the theme: ‘Nigeria: The State of the Nation’ held at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Thursday.
He said that the bill “Bring Back Your Children” will soon be sponsored at the National Assembly by the Union.
He said that Nigerian leaders after killing education in the country now look for other countries to send their children to study.
Osodeke declared that ASUU will mobilise Nigerians to march to the National Assembly to demand that the bill be passed for all elected public officers to send their children to Nigerian public schools.
“Today, the leaders of this country and those who control our wealth have completely abandoned education,” the ASUU President said.
“Today , this country is reaping the work of our abandoning education and what do they do as an alternative?
“They have created avenue for themselves in such a way that having killed our education, they look for somewhere else where people invested in education to send their children, their wards and relations. (Sun)