Three percent budget by Fashola on Primary education is faulty - Agbaje"

Three percent budget by Fashola on Primary education is faulty - Agbaje" In the area of housing, Agbaje maintained that 70 per cent of Lagos was a slum due to deficit in housing units. He said due to the scarcity of land it would be wise to build storey buildings instead of bungalows so that more people could be accommodated. He said Lagos State was one of the worst places to do business in Nigeria because it was the hardest city to get a construction permit. In education, Agbaje said the current budget was faulty as only three per cent was dedicated to primary education. He said the state had a leadership problem due to “vested interest,” promising an equitable distribution of wealth if elected into office. He said, “All we do with the education budget is to pay salaries and overheads. There is no way that education is going to change. The education of today is not for the factory but for innovation. I tell the younger ones that those who have changed the world have done so not with university education but from the basic education that they received at the primary and secondary levels but today we have a situation where (out) of our budget, this government spends three per cent on primary education.” Agbaje said, “We spent little or nothing on primary education and that is the problem because once you lack that foundation, you will build on nothing. We believe it is time to rejig those figures and give our children the foundation that is required rather than a situation where you are spending money on a people that are already handicapped. “You talk about housing because Lagos today, going by reports, is 70 per cent slum. And when I say slum, you understand what I mean and that is because we have not got our housing right. Lagos needs over 200,000 units every year. Lagos State by its own admission, from 1999 till date has built about 25,000 units.” Source Punch.