Nigerian universities have been buffeted with agonising
months of strikes for over a decade and until now, the
article is pretty much the identical. Government is still
reluctant to give the education part a shot in the arm.
learned Staff amalgamation of Universities, ASUU, has
been on strike since June 30 and has dialogued with FG
over 11 times, albeit, inconclusively.
This highlights the lukewarm posture of government in
the direction of the striking lecturers and from ASUU’s
body dialect and utterances, they have made it
abundantly clear to any person who cares to listen that
they are prepared to extend the strike even if it takes
years, asserting that their conclusion was adequately
taken in a bid to revitalise Nigerian universities.

[color=#990000][/color]i know its long but please take ur time to read through.

Why Federal Government Does Not Want ASUU Strike
To End
The bone of contention is lucid in itself. An affirmation
was reached in 2009 that all government universities
would require a total sum of N1.5 trillion disperse over
three years (2009-2011) to address the rot and decay in
the universities.
But, in the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU,
marked between the union and the government in
2012, FG determined to continue the gesture to
encompass both government and state universities.
After the 2012 reconsider, it was agreed that rather
than of N1.5 trillion, FG would infuse a total of N1.3
trillion into the universities over four years.
Almost four years down the line, FG has refused to
fulfill its end of the cut-rate. Rather than reply to the
matters increased by the amalgamation that would
double-check fast tenacity to the imbroglio, government
boycotted ASUU to summon a gathering with Pro-
Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of universities,
proposing them N130 billion with a equivalent
alignment to lecturers to resume work directly.
But the amalgamation is asserting that by throwing
money at universities in that kind, government has
rejected the 2009 affirmation it went into freely with
the union and the 2012 MoU. ASUU is not making any
fresh demand but has maintained that the 2009
affirmation must be respected.

It is silly that government agents were cited as saying
ASUU’s N1.3 trillion demand is adept of closing down
the homeland. No. Their insatiable and rapacious greed
will.
The private jets in the presidential fleet can go by
plane, centenary celebrations is a main concern to
government, there’s sufficient cash to pay humongous
wages and allowances to government legislators and
other political agency holders, enough to forfeit to oil
grant thieves, enough to pay militants false amnesty
cheques and phantom contracts while they extend to
bunker our crude oil like not ever before, there’s
sufficient cash to plead Boko Haram to accept amnesty
but there is no cash for regulation abiding Nigerian
students who desire to eke out a living using university
education as a pacing stone. It is this kind of attitude
from the government that provokes the use of brute
force by some local assemblies to appeal government’s
vigilance to their difficulties.
Government will not assertion it has no money to
fulfill this affirmation. A homeland with 109 senators
earning about N19.6 billion a year, while N51.8 billion
is spent on members of House of Representatives for
the identical time span, totaling N71.4 billion.
This addition, N71.4 billion, comprises 17.8 per cent of
the N400bn annual intervention finance suggested by
the managing group on Needs evaluation of Nigerian
Universities. Surely, our lecturers and universities
where they were taught warrant more.
When we converse of heath care, proceedvernment
authorized and the ruling elite proceed abroad for
medical vigilance; we converse of awful streets, they go
by plane personal jets; we converse of power, they run
their homes on 24-7 alternate electrical energy source;
now we’re talking learning, their wards are in some of
the best universities abroad. There is no way the
myriad of problems bedeviling the homeland can be
undertook if the political elite don’t feel the pangs.

Just a few more:-)

That Mr. leader has taken out time from his ‘busy’
schedule to certainly parley with the warring factions
of his party, PDP, but has not ever sat down with ASUU
constituents to journal a course for Nigeria’s managers
of tomorrow apparently shows his main concerns.
Party activities and following perceived foes of his 2015
ambition round with apparatus of state are far more
significant things than angling over rearwards to
pander to the claims of the hitting lecturers.
But then, government should take into cognisance the
fact that, the longer the students remain at dwelling,
possibilities are that they will be lured into social vices.
The aftermath can be catastrophic for the state.
There are misplaced calls in some quarters for ASUU to
be ‘reasonable’, accept FG’s offer and come back to
school rooms. Others lambast them for being selfish
and unpatriotic. It is unfortunate that Nigerians are
habitually looking for quick rectify answers to
monumental difficulties. Less endowed nations like
Ghana, Botswana and Angola are making giant paces
on all fronts because the citizenry have at one point or
the other asserted that the needful be done. Here, any
thing hurled at us is accepted with glee.
We should get our priorities right as a homeland.
Government should constrain its own excesses.
learning should be given the vigilance it deserves.
learning of the citizenry should not be subjected to any
form of discussion. Negotiating the learning of our
leaders of tomorrow is more or less negotiating the
future of the homeland.
Government deliberately likes the strike to linger, first,
to blackmail the disagreement. There have been some
unsavoury comments from the government’s split up of
the negotiation table that ASUU has been infiltrated by
moles from the disagreement, alleging that the strike
has lingered to gain political capital. That is how
reduced this government can stoop. We have glimpsed
it before. It is an irresponsible and shameless
government, one that needs integrity and honesty that
will accuse the opposition for all its anguish. It is
unbecoming for the government of the day to continue
to heap its malfunction on the landing of the
disagreement and ASUU strike is just another avenue to
decorate the opposition black before the public.
Second, is to send a powerful signal to other unions
who might be considering alike activity to have a
rethink. possibly, government conceives by acceding to
ASUU’s claims, other work unions might toe the
identical route at the smallest excuse.

Third, the supreme aim of government is to decorate a
bad image of the association to Nigerians, at smallest,
for as long as the strike perseveres. The administrator
Gabriel Suswan-led NEEDS Report Implementation
managing group mediating on behalf of the government
has regrettably taken a place that is untrue, dishonest,
and calculated to misinform the public and cause
disaffection in the direction of the union.
Rather than request cheap attractiveness, Governor
Suswan and the rest of the FG group should tow the
part of respect by inquiring
leader Goodluck Jonathan to respect the 2009
agreement. There’s no cornerstone for rotating the heat
on ASUU and the crusade of calumny.
It calls for concern, that same government that has
always maintained that ‘our graduates are
unemployable’ and our universities churn out ‘half-
baked graduates’ find it difficult to commit the much
required funds to revamp the universities.


Source - http://www.osundefender.org/?p=122445

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