- The founder of the Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti has decried the level of poverty in Nigeria
- Afe Babalola said bad leadership has turned Nigerians into beggars
- The senior lawyer also said that Nigeria as a nation is at crossroads with itself due to bad leadership structure
A senior advocate of Nigeria and founder of the Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti has said that Nigerians have been turned into beggars due to bad leadership structure in the country.
Afe Babalola said the culture of begging is alien to Nigerians especially those of the Yoruba extraction.
Babalola spoke in Ado Ekiti on Monday, March 5, when leadership of the Pharmaceutiical Council of Nigeria (PCN) paid a visit to ABUAD on assessment tour of the Pharrmacy Department of the newly commissioned 400-bed Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH.
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Vanguard reports that the senior lawyers said people of the south west who usually had resentment for begging in the 40s and 50s have now seen the act as a normal way of life.
He said: "Today, they have seen begging as a way of life, contrary to what they believed in , because of poverty caused by bad governance.”
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“Today, Nigeria is at a crossroad. The Yoruba were not used to begging in the 40s and 50s, they used to stone beggars because they viewed it as a shameful act," Babalola said.
But today, go to occasions and see how well dressed people beg for money. That was why we want to join the change agents using our university as a model even ABUAD is synonymous with change," senior lawyer lamented.
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NAIJ.com earlier reported that a literary icon, Ben Nwabueze, had earlier bemoaned the overthrow of Nigeria's leadership sphere by semi-illiterates.
Nwabueze said semi-literacy has become the bane of Nigeria's leadership.
He also called for the review of qualifications for public and political office holders from the elementary school certificate to university degree or its equivalent.
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Source: Naija.ng