[b]The ongoing
industrial action by the
Academic Staff Union Of
Universities which has shut our
campuses for over three
months has seen Nigerian
students as the ones mostly
affected by the crisis.

Some of
the lecturers teach in private
universities and such have
resumed there while the
students are left languishing at
home. Of particular concern to
me however is the sacrifice that
ASUU is also willing to pay in
this crisis.

Whenever there is a dispute as
this, there is usually no winner,
it is no victor, no vanquished as
all the parties involved must
sacrifice something to resolve
the crisis. Nigerian students are
losing valuable months by
sitting idle at home, the Federal
Government is also being
ridiculed in the public that it has
allowed the strike to drag this
long, my question then is what
is ASUU also ready to sacrifice to
see that there is a quick
resolution of the crisis?

ASUU cannot play the holier
than thou character here
because it is part of the rot in
the education sector. The
lecturers extort money from
students, molest our ladies, sit
on university panels that
recommend expulsion of
genuine student activists, and
do not show commitment to
their work. What then are they
ready to part with to atone for
the pains that their strike action
and unprofessionalism have
caused Nigerian students?

ASUU is demanding that its
salaries for the months they
didn’t step into the classrooms
be paid.! They want their own
salaries yet they don’t care how
long their students languish at
home. Are they immune to
making sacrifices? It is rather
unfortunate.[/b]

Source:- The Punch