ASUU STRIKE: A HOSTAGE SITUATION
The problem with ASUU and
the government is that they don’t understand. They don’t care to know where the
students stand. They have been throwing these stones at each other for so long,
without caring about who gets caught in the middle.
Gradually,
days run into weeks, months run into years and nobody cares. In a bid to
salvage the academic structures of the country, they are gradually unearthing
the pillars of these structures.
What has
the death of a man got to do with millions of lives at stake? Why not accord
the dead respect with a minute silence or maybe an hour silence or even more,
as they may prefer? But no! ASUU chose to postpone a crucial meeting that would
decide the fate of Millions of Nigerian Students in order to mourn a dead
colleague for seven days.
I have
wondered: what if this man never died? What if he was in coma? I bet ASUU would
have told the students to wait till he is out of coma, before anything could be
said about the 4 month old strike.
This strike
is gradually becoming a hostage situation. ASUU is the hostile, students,
parents government and the entire Education Sector is the hostages. What ransom
will be due for ASUU to release the education sector from this hostage
situation?
I thought
the grey hairs of these professors were insignias of wisdom, but their recent
actions have made me wonder if these hairs were bleached. Where they should
have fought with wisdom of their grey hairs, they have fumbled with dirt in
their bare hands.
This is a
breach to our Human rights. We are entitled to sound education, but ASUU have
denied us this entitlement, with their subterfuge to hold on the strike. It is
high time we demanded justice.
If we don’t
rise up to the situation and tackle this problem with both hands, then we might
be using those hands to bury more dead bodies and probably mourn them for the
rest of our lives.
Augustus C.
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