Pelumi Olajengbesi, an attorney based in Abuja, has pleaded with wealthy businesspeople like Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga as well as chief executive officers of banks to meet the N1.1 trillion requests made by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The attorney made this suggestion because he claims that since ASUU's strike began on February 14, 2022, the Federal Government has acted irresponsibly and casually.
Olajengbesi urged business leaders to step up to the plate in the same way that they did during the COVID-19 pandemic, when their financial support made a significant contribution to Nigeria's fight against the terrible illness and its negative economic effects.
After the governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, made his speech, he made a plea to wealthy donors. Umahi remarked that the Federal Government cannot borrow N1.1 trillion to meet ASUU’s demands.
“It is reckless for the governor to say that the present administration cannot borrow N1.1 trillion to defray the Revitalization Fund and the Earned Academic Allowance owed ASUU. Whereas, the APC government has embarked on a borrowing spree since 2015 with Nigeria’s debt to China increasing from $3.26bn as of September 30, 2020, to $3.59bn as of September 30, 2021, showing an increase of $330m in one year. The figure has definitely risen in the last one year.
“The APC government must know that education is at the core of any development. Spending loans on phantom White Elephant projects and train is counterproductive without building the mind. Any infrastructural development without human capital development is nonsense.
“Having demonstrated its unwillingness to end ASUU strike despite the billions that Umahi’s APC received in the recent primary elections, good-spirited Nigerians can only appeal to business magnate like Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Abdul Samad Rabiu, Mike Adenuga, as well as bank chiefs to come to the rescue of the common Nigerians whose children have been out of school for seven months this year and nine months in 2022 whilst politicians send their children to schools abroad.
“The philanthropists should please answer the call of the nation for youths to return to classrooms as some of them may be lured into crimes as a result of idleness. One of Nigeria’s greatest resources is its vibrant youth bulge and this population should be harness for productivity and not left to rot away.”
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