Leadership (Abuja)
1 January 2009
Delivering a speech at the recent convocation ceremony of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, on behalf of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Goke Adegoroye, accused university teachers of bribery and corruption.
Adegoroye, a former university don, hit the bull's eye when he said that lecturers demand bribery by sex or monetary gratification ranging from N250,000 from students to pass their examinations.
The presidency has since distanced itself from Adegoroye's accusation, saying that the speech he read was not vetted by it, and consequently issued him a query. That the permanent secretary delivered an unvetted speech does not take away the fact that he stated the obvious. This unwholesome practice is immanent in the university system even though there are some of the lecturers who are too decent to depart from the path of moral rectitude. When academic excellence is compromised, the consequences is a turn-out of mediocre graduates. The time to clean the Augean stables is now.
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