Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, Omoyele Sowore, has berated Nigerian political leaders for ruining public education in the country.
Sowore in a post on X on Monday said that Nigerians should be enraged at the political class in the country for diverting public funds to send their children to expensive private schools including the Charter House School in the Lekki area of Lagos State where they pay as high as N42million per annum while they left public schools in ruin.
Sowore added that the politicians who diverted public funds and impoverished Nigerians do not only use the diverted funds to send their children to expensive private schools but also build mansions for themselves.
Attaching photos of Charter House Primary School on his X post, the #RevolutionNow convener said, “These are the classrooms and campus of the @Charterhouselag School, a primary school in Lagos’s Lekki area, charging N42 million per annum.
“The people paying for their kids to attend this school are some of the same people building substandard school classrooms across Nigeria.
“What should not be lost on Nigerians is that these classrooms ought to be donning our public schools as the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world.
“The outrage should actually be against the Nigerian political class that ruined public education institutions and diverted the funds from there to send their own kids to expensive private schools and also build themselves mansions that are swankier than the classrooms you see here.”