Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Sir Rowland Owie, has condemned the Federal Government’s concession of Kings College, Lagos, to the school’s old boys association, describing the development as an attempt to undermine Nigeria’s unity schools.
Owie, who spoke on Tuesday in Benin City, said the concession had triggered opposition from workers in unity schools across the country, who feared that allowing the arrangement at Kings College to stand could pave the way for similar moves in other federal unity schools.
The former senator said the unity schools remained among the few institutions that symbolised national integration and warned against any
policy that could lead to their privatisation.According to him, “This is trying to destroy unity school, you want to privatise them? It is shocking that the president of a nation that comes from old western region, which was controlled by the old UPN where free education started, free health, can now be talking about privatising education.
“This is the highest level of insanity insanity in body, insanity in health, insanity in administration. It is unfortunate that Tinubu will be the one doing this. It shows certainly that there is madness in this government.
“This policy should be reversed immediately so that the unity of our country will be sustained.”
