A lot of irreparable damage was done to the credibility of many leading Nigerian universities amongst their peers in the international circle, school calendars were grossly disrupted and irredeemable precious time was lost by innocent Nigerian students like the proverbial grass that suffers when two elephants engage in a battle royale. Barely six years after, ASUU revisited her long battle with federal government, but this time, when a university graduate and protagonist of the rule of law, President Umaru Yar'Adua is at the helm of affairs.
ASUU is fighting on similar issues as it did in 2003, vis a vis improved funding of university education, improved welfare package commensurate with the political class, autonomy etc. employing same strategy... indefinite strike. Nevertheless, the strike action has entered its fourth month with no end in sight. Could anything be wrong with ASUU's approach to agitating her cause? The impact of this indefinite strike and like may others in the past on our educational system is grave. Our students in all the public universities across the length and breadth of Nigeria now roam the streets, doing nothing. Some have taken to various forms of antisocial behaviours inimical to the common good of our society. The days of these youths are being lost for no compelling reasons, other than insensitivity and egoistic show-off between ASUU and our government. Any nation that toys with education and empowerment of her youth population only destroys the fabric of its existence.
We deceive ourselves if we think anybody would take any of the research outcomes from our ivory towers seriously. In all sincerity, ASUU is simply telling the world that nothing scientific goes on in their various universities. One cannot but question the judgment of ASUU leaders who compelled our academics and intellectuals in all the public institutions to embark on strike lasting more than a quarter of a year? Can all their contemporaries in Harvard, Oxford, Yale and Cape Town Universities abandon their duty posts at once for more than a month for any reason?
Definitely, no one would suggest that. Again, we cry foul whenever the annual world university ranking is released, that no Nigerian tertiary institution features in the first 5000 on the list. With these structural attitudinal and other self-inflicting problems on our educational system, how could any of them be among the top thousand? A lot of company executives in the country have been complaining bitterly about 'unemployables graduates, being churned out of the four walls of our tertiary institutions.
Is it by closing down and poor funding of these institutions that will bring about an improvement in the qualities of our graduates? These are the questions our state and federal governments and members of ASUU must find legitimate answers to. In the light of the foregoing and in the general interest of several millions innocent Nigerian under-graduate and postgraduate student and their parents, ASUU and the government must compromise stance, resolve their dispute as soon as possible in order to bring back life to our campuses
Source: This Day
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