Mr Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights activist has asked the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, to tell the whole truth about how he survived life as a Law undergraduate.
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The Lagos based lawyer said this while reacting to caims of Mustapha recently that he did not rely on his parents for money as a student.
He stated that he paid his way through school because he acquired business skills as a student that enabled him to earn money.
While recalling how he became an entrepreneur as a schoolboy the SGF said he joined other students to grow crops and then organise their sales.
Mustapha who spoke as a special guest during the Hong Economic Summit, which took place at his alma mater, Government Secondary School (GSS), Hong said, “All through my university days, I did not need to ask my parents for money because I had become self-sufficient. By the time I was in Part 2 going to Part 3, I had already started work and earning money.”
However, Mr Falana asked Mustapha to tell that story to the marines – or where the US marines will invade next!
Falana added that Mustapha’s story is incomplete as he did not reveal the fact that the Federal Government and the various State Governments took care of him and all Nigerian undergraduates at the material time: “When Mr Mustapha read law as an undergraduate at the Ahmadu Bello University (1976-1979) the defunct military government had cancelled the payment of tuition in all tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Hence, Mr Mustapha did not pay tuition as an undergraduate.”PMNews
