QUOTA SYSTEM: AN ALIBI FOR EDUCATIONAL FAILURE IN THE NORTH WHILST CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF SENTIMENT NATIONWIDE

The hypocrisy of Nigerians is best described as hyper hypocrisy. The same people who would come to facebook and other media complaining about the cheat and inequality enshrined in the quota system are the same people coming to social media to defend the appalling communication disabilities of the allegedly rescued chibok mother who was to write the west African examination council some 2yrs ago.

Most appalling and disgruntled in this northern quota system and sentiments of other region is the submissions such as: I have seen some girls in the north who can't even write their names in ss3. Should such a person be writing waec exam at all, to start with? What is the justification that one that cant write his/her own name in arabic or hausa merit writing a senior waec? Such statement as I have seen a student who couldnt write in English language but knows everything that has to do with the exams? Please do we write physics, chemistry, economics, geography, maths and other subjects in Arabic or Hausa language? Are they disabled children? These are issues that should be condemned in clear terms as it has no basis when our constitution preaches equality.

Many young children found lacking in the east, south and west,not even on this level of national disgrace , are meant to write waec two, three, four times till they become grinded and pronounced fit and come out with good results. I still don't understand the embarrassing submissions as if such a disgraceful act bore out of laziness, moral decadence and parental and governments failure should be continued to be abated? Do we submit that the long run effect should continued to be told on the nation as a result of many unqualified and poorly trained people ending up in civil service as the last straw of their survival and aggressively competing with other citizens of the nation that merit their positions in the civil service based on hard work?

I believe that What we ought to be preaching as a people is that the government should embrace the UNESCO 26% budgetary allocation for education. That the government should set up a determined and committed  evaluation and monitoring team in the educational sector nationwide without any form of religious and tribal sentiment rather than one form of quota system that's in the mind of the people as an excuse for failure. 

This debate, I thank God, has shown the kind of people we are in this country. This is not to say that there are no brilliant scholars in the north or in the civil service from the north that deserve their appointment. If nothing, I know of the record of jibrin aminu in the university college hospital ibadan and I know of Nuhu Ribadu and a handful of my northern friends that we served together in the north. Provided we seek for a better nation, what is bad is bad. It has no other name and must be condemned in totality.

This writeup may not please some people but I implore you to just drop your views if you have any contrary opinion without throwing civility to the wind.

God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Akande Akin Sanyaolu.
www.aasanyaolu.blogspot.com.