By Tom Moses

ABAK—Former Delta State Commissioner of Police, Udom Ekpo Udom, has expressed worry over the steady decline in the standard of education in Nigeria and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the anti-corruption war to the education sector to sanitise the system.

The retired Police DIG, who is the proprietor of Ivory Tower of Schools, Ediene Abak, Akwa-Ibom State,  made the call, yesterday, during a media parley to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the school.

President Buhari

He said that the magnitude of corruption in the education sector was becoming alarming, worrisome and required presidential intervention.

“I commend President Buhari for sustaining the fight against corruption in the past one year. By this sustained war, he has indeed given Nigeria a good image abroad and even within, people are no longer doing things with impunity. But I want to say that corruption does not only thrive in the political circle or involves stealing of money and as such, he should turn the beam on other sectors of the economy, especially, the education sector.

“The education sector is where future leaders of this country are groomed but this sector is so corrupt that we cannot be sure of the morals of our future leaders. So, if President Buhari comes and goes without doing something about the corruption in the education sector, it will be too bad.

“He should sanitise the educational system. Many of our teachers and lecturers are so corrupt. They trade examination scores and marks and consequently, many of our graduates today cannot write a simple correct sentence. Please, he needs to visit the education sector.”