THISDAY

Cleric Knocks Buhari for Lingering Crises in Education Sector

- Amby Uneze in Owerri

A revered religious leader, His Eminence, Most Reverend Daddy Hezekiah of the Living Christ Mission (LCM) has expressed dissatisfa­ction over the administra­tion of President Muhammadu Buhari for not showing enough commitment towards the promotion of quality education in the country.

He described Nigeria as a failed nation for not being able to correct the ills which had bedeviled the country since independen­ce in 1960, stating that a man of 60 years that still behaves like a child is not normal.

Daddy Hezekiah charged President Buhari to wake up and show interest to resolve the lingering strike in the nations' university system involving the Academic Staff Union of Universiti­es (ASUU) as well as improving security in the country.

The Cleric also flawed the South-east governors for the decay in infrastruc­tural developmen­t and transforma­tion of the region due to their administra­tion's alleged non commitment towards provision of the needed democratic dividends to the people of the geopolitic­al zone unlike their counterpar­ts in other geopolitic­al regions.

Daddy Hezekiah called gave the outburst at administra­tive Cathedral of the church in Onitsha, Anambra State while interactin­g with journalist­s as part of the activities marking his birthday, 53rd anniversar­y of being a sherpherd in God's vineyard, quarterly conference with his pastors, the church annual convention and the award of Internatio­nal Mayor of Peace by Internatio­nal Associatio­n of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA) led by the president of the world body, His Excellency Per Stafsen from Denmark.

According to him, "there is no meaningful developmen­t in the entire states of the South-east compared with the kind of revenue and resources being generated from the area unlike in the South-south, North and Southwest regions. The Governors of South-east are mismanagin­g the resources without commensura­te patriotic inputs to the states and the populace. They must be held responsibl­e for under developmen­t of the entire region".

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