The Human Development Initiative (HDI), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Nigeria, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to increase the funding of education to improve the quality and standard of education in the country.
HDI made this known in a communiqué issued at the end of Stakeholders’ Forum on “Gender and Tax Responsive Schools in Lagos”.
The NGO also called on major stakeholders in the sector to raise awareness on policies and laws for adequate education tax payment.
HDI also noted that public education system should be more responsive to all children, especially the girl-child and the marginalised.
The communiqué reads, “Government should upgrade public schools by providing adequate infrastructure and necessary resources for effective teaching and learning.
“Government should invest more in quality teachers’ training to support inclusive education.
“Government should improve the use of technology in collection of taxes and consequently blocking loopholes in the tax administrative system.”
It explained that there was the need to intensify sensitisation of all taxable adults on voluntary payment of tax as a means to widen the ‘share’ and ‘size’ of education spending.
The communique appealed to government to ensure equity in the provision of infrastructure to solve educational challenges.
It tasked stakeholders on the need to support active movement of Civil Society Organisations to achieve structural reforms in relevant public policy and tax laws that would guarantee quality, equitable, free and inclusive public education.
It called on the media to leverage various platforms to educate and enlighten the public on tax in relation to education reforms.
“The media should use various platforms to hold government accountable to tax justice and education reforms.
“Government and all relevant stakeholders should collaborate to ensure a fair tax system that will promote the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals- 4 (SDGs-4),’’ the communique added.
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