The ASUU Festival Of Craze

It is bad enough that the Nigerian educational system is buried deep
in the murky water of ignoble failure with no hope of redemption,
also it is something more than a stigma for an academic circle of
school administration to drag on a snail pace which has been
recycled too much for comfort, while those steering the wheel of
power close up their heart and lock their ears from the right
which is meant to be disbursed without hesitation.
One day, this strike craze will stop!...
I can't help but juggle the indecision between Federal Government
and Academic Staff Union of Universities. The strike has become
something close to an annual ceremony year in year out. Are both
parties being indecisive? Or OUR government cannot simply meet
their demands? The answers to those questions are strategically
embedded in the problems that are seen.
ASUU has clearly rejected Federal Government's offers and strike
still continues. The disagreement is not hidden, ASUU is fighting
for what is right and it is better now than never. The strike has
become a frequent dose dished to the Federal Government which
is taken for granted. In the year 2009, the union insisted that
based on the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement and the January 2012
Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, signed by both parties, what
was due for 2012 and 2013 was N500 billion, not N100 billion.
Clearly the matter has not been handled seriously and only the
substantial provision of this amount will meet the needs and
demands of the universities all over.
ASUU has been toyed with for 4 years due to the fact that the
FG have not been able to implement this. The Nigerian Universities
are in a bad shape lacking basic infrastructures, facilities and the
likes, what went amiss? The future of Nigeria and the Nigerian
youths are not put into consideration. I am not in support of the
wasted time but it is high time the government did what should
have been done. If this indefinite strike is to seek for that
paradigm change, something worth the wait should be done with
immediate effect.
This concerns us all, Nigeria as a whole because nothing positive
as emanated out of this, only if the Federal Government meets the
need and stop the blockage of funds. The ongoing indefinite strike
is starting to emerge as the longest of all. How long will this wait
hold? Will it be a continued ASUU Festival year in year out? Deeper
crisis might be drilled into the system and if this battle for right
rather than plea for submission is not held firmly, the educational
system should be ready to withstand the ASUU festival without
prior notice. What the Union fights for is for the benefit of the
future Nigerians and what better way than to keep the Federal
Government attention on hold!
Will this craze stop? Or we begin to anticipate for the 2014
ASUU festival? Whatever the decision is, we would know if/when
it is called off. However gloomy the decision may be, it is
disheartening that many lives have been affected negatively
without prior notice that can be traced to the Federal Government
and societal fault which reflects under poor decisions. ASUU
wants to change that and there is a greater price to pay for
change. Every once a while we need motivation to level up our lives,
openly it is vivid that ASUU is on that journey.