Buhari faults ASUU, alleges corruption in educational sector

President Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities over the prolonged strike that has kept Nigerian undergraduates out of school for over seven months.

Buhari spoke during the 4th national summit on diminishing corruption in the public sector, held at the state house conference centre, Abuja.

He alleged that corruption undermines educational policies, investments and creates an unfriendly learning environment for young people.

The president claimed that university lecturers were complicit in undermining government’s investment in the educational sector.

The chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, noted that corruption in the educational sector has been rightly described as stealing the future.

He noted that corruption in the educational sector manifests in different ways such as recruitment of unqualified or unfit persons to teach at primary, secondary or tertiary levels; admission racketeering, examination malpractice, operation of illegal academic institutions among others.