A former provost of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Amoku, Rivers State, Dr Bassey Ubong has been sorry for that education is not being enabled to play the function it is expected to in society because of the lip service to the sector.

He stated it was unfortunate that Nigeria is yet to allocate as much as 1% of her financial arrangements to the education sector out of the 26% suggested by the United Nations.

Ubong, revealed his regrets while speaking with our reporter in Uyo Akwa Ibom State over the weekend.

He said “The problem of education is that we are not ready in all genuineness to let education play the function it ought to play, like in the University of Claringforth, Austria, from chalkboard they have whatever they desire.

“The UN advises a minimum of the federal spending plan of 26%, but in Nigeria, we don’t have up to 1%. We do not enable education play the function it is supposed to. Education transforms lives and society. It is rather sad!” He stated.

The prolific literary author who has released more than 20 books in all genres of literature; drama, prose and poetry said everything will move well when all hands are on deck.

“The fact is that I have actually gone through this thing and I know what is within. You may indicate well as a leader however you may be so constrained. I always believe in one policy, total policy management, policy is successful when everybody does his work if we do our own bits, the nation will be successful”

The previous provost who also blamed bad followership in the country said management be successful in the context of followership.

On evaluation malpractice, the author lamented that the evil of evaluation malpractice is as old as the system itself adding that it is just getting more advanced now.

“Well these things are as old as the system, it refers magnitude and it is more advanced now that is why I’m speaking about followership. There was a time when I was a provost, we had a leakage in tests question, you believe it was brought on by one of the instructors, we asked a student whether she is included, she said she paid N1000 to get the concern.

“Also when parents offer money to supervisors to get examination questions and answers, rather of motivating them to check out, what do you expect.

“On cultism in schools, we ought to blame the grownups because they introduced the children into it. As an adult you are asked to lead a group and you introduce kids into it, these kids are being moneyed and who are individuals moneying them?”