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ASCSN calls on FG to halt plans to sell Unity schools.

B y Afolabi Oyekunle. The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has called on well-meaning Nigerians to reject the plan by the Federal government to sell the Unity schools because it will make quality secondary education inaccessible to millions of Nigerian children. Reacting to report that the Federal Government has approved the concessioning of King’s College, Lagos, to Old Boys Association, the ASCSN stated that once that was done, the remaining 119 Federal Government Colleges would be shared by the political elites and their stooges and consequently killed the Unity School System. In a press statement issued in Abuja today and signed by its National President, Comrade Shehu Mohammed, and the Secretary-General, Comrade Joshua Apebo, the Union recalled that the Prime Minister in the First Republic, Sir Tafawa Balewa in1966 conceived the idea of setting up Federal Government Colleges to be models of secondary education where Nigerian children irrespec...