PATRICK ABANG Calabar –
Senator Jariigbe Agom, representing Cross River North Senatorial District, has said education, politics and ethnicity can make or Mar a nation.
The lawmaker disclosed this during a public lecture which he delivered at the main auditorium of the International Conference Hall at the University of Calabar.
Sen. Agom, who spoke at the 1st Registry Day Lecture with a theme: Ethnicity, Education and Politics: A Triple SWOT Analysis and the National Question, noted that ethnicity, education and politics should rather be seen as an asset towards the development of the nation rather than destroying the nation.
He said that ethnicity, education and politics are a triple-edged sword, that has positive and negative effects depending on how they are used in the process of building and developing of the nation.
“Ethnicity, Education and Politics are creations of man and have served useful purposes for various societies around the world.
“All men and women who transformed their societies through exceptional leadership were men of unusual intelligence and ability who did not allow their ethnic origins to becloud their sense of judgment in services to their nation.
“On the other hand, ethnicity, education and politics can destroy a nation if they are out to bad use as we have seen many African countries, including Nigeria”.
In her remarks, the Registrar of the University of Calabar, Gabriel Egbe stressed that the first Registry Day was initiated to reflect the Institution’s relevance, competence, abilities, opportunities and the enormous challenges which are hallmarks of good administration.
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