Ex-president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday called for total overhaul of the nation’s education system.
Obasanjo spoke at the 18th Valedictory Service and Prize-Giving Day of Good Shepherd Schools held at Atan, Ota area of Ogun State.
Obasanjo, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Deacon Victor Durodola, said there was need for total change in the country’s systems, including the education system.
“We need to overhaul the education system. Unless we overhaul our systems, we will continue to have problem. The education system is just one subset of the systems. Once we overhaul our entire system, every other system will fall in place,” Obasanjo said.
“Unless we come back to arrest our value system and bring it to a path of rectitude, then we cannot change the educational system for good.”
“But when we reorder the society, our value system is reordered and we reform all our weak institutions, everything will work well; the education system will also work well. It is because our system has crumbled that the education system is affected, it is a reflection of what the system has been all over the country.
“Once we are able to reform ourselves, make our institutions to be strong, then the education system will be strong”, he added.
Obasanjo further described examination malpractice as “a form of corruption”.
He added that: “It deserves to be treated with some forms of iron hand and that is the only way we can take care of it otherwise it will just continue like a wild fire and we need to arrest it”.