THE Chairman of Education Rights Initiative, Mr John Ogedah has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to invest more in the education sector, especially in reducing the number of out-of-school children in the country.

Ogedah, in his reaction to President Buhari’s nationwide broadcast marking the 2018 Democracy Day and 3rd anniversary of his administration, said appreciable progress is yet to be achieved in the education.

He said the rot in the education sector over the years requires the declaration of emergency and full mobilisation of funds to address the challenges that have continued to bedevil the sector.

Making allusion to the President’s remark in his speech that his government has also continued to support the implementation of various initiatives aimed at improving the quality of Basic Education delivery, Ogedah, said there should be concrete plans on how to deal with the issue of out-of-school children.

He noted that even though basic education was not directly under the purview of the Federal government, but insisted that “every child is a Nigerian child and have the right to quality education”.

“In this era, we still talk about 10.5 million children who are supposed to be in school and are not the school.

In some schools, children learn under trees and sit on the bare floor to receive instructions.

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We are not unmindful of the support the Federal government is given to the states through Universal Basic Education Commission for the implementation of UBE,” he said.

President Buhari had noted in his speech that his administration has “ensured proper funding at the Basic Education level with the disbursement of N42.2 billion UBE Matching Grant to 36 States and the FCT, N851.5 million Special Education Grant disbursed to 23 States and private providers of Special Education and N2.2 billion Teachers Professional Development Fund to 33 States and the FCT”.

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