Founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has called for a total overhaul of the education sector in the country to create the right quality of graduates.Bakare disclosed this on Friday to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers meetings in New York, US.
He said education should be every government’s priority.
“In the past when you are coming out from the university, there are regular jobs, car loan and other facilities that will keep you in the country,” he said.
“Right now, because of the lack of jobs, job creation has become a major issue; our young people are now taking to crime and are benefiting from proceeds of crime and kidnapping.
“But with the right policy in place, we can inject new ideas that will create jobs for our people.”
The cleric added that he was optimistic that the right leadership would focus on education and job creation.
“I trust God that the right leadership will come. I call them a new breed without greed that will consider others and begin to create opportunities for us within our countries,” he said.
“About 50 percent of our youth are not employed and 25 percent of them are not employable. So, there is something fundamentally wrong with our education system that is producing semi-illiterates.”
He also called on the Federal Government to review the education curriculum among other things.
Bakare urged Buhari’s administration to introduce more programmes that would curb poverty and inequality in the country.
