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By Correspondent
ActionAid Nigeria has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his commitment to increase education spending by 50% over the next two years and up to 100% by 2025,
Our Correspondent recalls that Buhari made the commitmentat the Global Education Summit in London which was co-hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
According to president Buhari, the objective of the increase is to reach the global benchmark of 20% of public allocation and expenditure to the education sector.
Ene Obi, ActionAid country Director, in a statement, noted that the organization was looking forward to the next steps and actions to back up the President’s commitment, to address the numerous challenges confronting the education sector.
“Nigeria is a signatory to many international instruments on the delivery of quality education, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as such, we expect to see a directive to all relevant government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, to prioritize and commence the process of incremental budgeting to actualize the commitment.
“We are particularly delighted that the commitment responds to the call for Governments to take actions to increase the SHARE of funds allocated to and spent on free, quality, inclusive public education.
“This is very critical for the transformation of the sector and will help in placing the country on the path to sustainable education for all,” she said.
The country director noted that, following the trend analysis of the Federal Government Budget by ActionAid Nigeria over the years, the allocation to education had declined relatively.
“Whereas the size of the Federal Government budget has increased since 2016, the allocation to education has been on the decline, although the allocation to education in the overall 2021 FGN budget increased from 5.61% in 2020 to 5.68% in 2021, it was lower than the 7% attained in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
“It is no longer news that Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is home to the highest number of out-of-school children in the world (estimated at around 10.5 million) and evidence has shown that the Covid-19 pandemic and insecurity is increasing this number, hence, the commitment of the President couldn’t have come at a better time.
“Finally, the Government must ensure it works with relevant organizations to enable greater scrutiny of future allocations by publicly publishing education budget and expenditure.
“To attain the SDG for education, it would be critical to not only increase the funding for education but also ensure that it is targeted at projects and programmes that are aimed at addressing the out-of-school phenomenon especially for girls and other marginalized children, improve learning outcomes and increase the nations stock of human capital that can be transformed into job creation.
“We want to encourage that there has to be quality provision of gender responsive public service facilities in all schools,” she added.
ActionAid Nigeria, therefore, called on all arms of government to collectively push forward this commitment and ensure that necessary steps are taken to actualize the commitment.
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