Former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, who also later served as Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, has urged presidential candidates of political parties in the country to prioritize health and education sectors to enhance productivity.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned he said this in Lagos on Wednesday during the programme organized by the board and management of Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi Foundation (MAMF) in collaboration with St. Nicholas Hospital..
Delivering an opening speech that had as its theme, ‘Nigerian Healthcare System: The Past, Present and the Future’, Sanusi said Nigerian politicians, especially presidential candidates, must have a clear plan and utmost respect for the education and health sectors having according to him failed abysmally.
He said doctors and teachers have not been treated well, hence, the brain drain experienced in the health and education sectors.
“Education and health are the foundation of the economy, if we don’t prioritize these sectors, then we are finished. The rate of brain drain is high because prepared budgets in the health and education sectors have been embezzled and mismanaged.
You can’t treat your teachers and doctors as if they are nothing. That is the reason they are leaving the country in droves. We must reverse brain drain by respecting the demands of teachers and health practitioners.
As a people and most especially as governments, we have lost our respect for the professions that should be respected. Teachers and doctors are not looking for money but the amount of money we invest in training our children in becoming doctors and teachers can never be earned in salaries in this country but people deserve a decent life and also respect.
People want to serve but they also want to eat. They are humans who have basic responsibility; they want to educate their children. We have created an economy where everybody on a narrow salary is being impoverished’ he said- Team@orientactualmags.com
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