Obasanjo Speaks: Nigeria Needs Urgent Overhaul

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said there is an urgent need to reform
institutions in the country, adding that the education sector particularly needs a
complete overhaul.
Obasanjo, who spoke at the 18th Valedictory Service of Good Shepherds
Schools, Ota, Ogun State, said the decay in the country had eaten deep into the
education sector.
Represented by his Chief of Staff, Deacon Victor Durodola, Obasanjo said
examination malpractice was a sign of the corruption and rot in the system.
This is also as a don, Prof. Supo Jegede, said unless the country’s education
sector was overhauled, it would continue to dwindle.
On his part, Obasanjo said, “Our system has crumbled and the education sector
has been affected. Unless we overhaul our system, we will continue to have
problems. The education sector is a subset of the system. Once we overhaul the
system, everything will fall in place.
“Our value system is changing. It has changed for the worse and we need to
bring it back to path of rectitude. When we reorder the society, our value
system is reordered. When we reform all our weak institutions, everything will
work well. The education sector will also work well.”