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| Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 10:20pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
A caveat: this intervention is not about Nigeria’s university lecturers as individuals. As a product of the system, I am immensely grateful for the part Nigerian academics have played in my life. However, I must look the outfit called Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the face and express my reservations about its extortionate, diversionary and incendiary tactics. ASUU, the main academic union in the country, is no longer an outfit associated with sound logic and patriotism: it has become an arrogant, ignorant, mean and decidedly insidious organisation that studiously ignores the pains of even its own members, many of whom have been bullied into silence, while pontificating on a socialist Utopia. As an organization, ASUU has a sense of entitlement that borders on criminality. That’s why, this week, its president lamented that none of its members currently on strike had been paid since February. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, ASUU’s president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, accused the Federal Government of using hunger as a tool to end the ongoing strike. Hear him: “This is the sixth month our salaries have been held. They thought that if they held our salaries for two or three months we would come begging and say ‘please allow us to go back to work.’ But we as a union of intellectuals, we have grown beyond that. You can’t use the force of hunger to pull our members back.” ASUU’s lamentation about payment for work not done captures the behemoth that it has become following years of pampering by corrupt politicians. The current strike, like the others before it, is not about the mythical education sector and certainly not about students; it is about money and more money for ASUU members, which is a legitimate quest. But ASUU just cannot avoid couching its demands in grandiloquent terms. On the question of increased pay, a committee headed by Professor Nimi Briggs reportedly recommended a 180 per cent pay rise for lecturers, but the government favoured 100 per cent. But what did ASUU do? It insisted that any agreement reached with the Federal Government must be binding on state governments! ASUU only mouths federalism only when it suits its whims. Just how do you force federal and state governments to pay the same rates in a federation when the purse is not the same? Expounding tired and over-flogged arguments, ASUU suggests, fraudulently, that all the problems in the university system are caused by the government. ASUU lacks reflectivity; its intellectualism is fickle and bogus. That’s why it can bellyache over payment for work not done. A university is supposed to be centred around students, but ASUU as a murderous tyrant continually messes up the lives of generations of students with its endless strikes. It claims to be fighting for education in the country while being completely silent on primary school education. It hardly joins students’ struggles but feeds off the adulation and support of the Organised Labour. ASUU has become a pharaoh in the university system and must be unbundled. If Nigeria is too bad for you, resign and go abroad: stop fouling the system with Animal Farm charade. ASUU stinks very badly with its annual ritual of “mother of all strikes.” Many lecturers, riding the high horse of ASUU arrogance, are morally bankrupt, criminally oppressive, intolerant of dissenting opinion, and given to Bolshevik verbiage. Just consider the ASUU president, who does not realize how horrendous he sounds. Only recently, ASUU wasted an entire academic session on an unproductive strike. This year, it’s been on strike for six months and decreed yet another month of idleness, making students’ lives a misery while pretending to fight for them. ASUU is mentally retarded: the only language it understands is habitual strikes with pay, an infernal tactic. If the university system is broken, ASUU with its underhand tactics played a big part in that sorry outcome. I am a Christian and I frown on collecting payment for work not done. It is evil, maniacal and Machiavellian. ASUU has never done anything reasonable for students in decades. To ASUU, Obasanjo was bad, Yar’Adua was unserious, Jonathan was useless and Buhari is irresponsible. So who can ASUU work with? If ASUU doesn’t change its ways, the day will come when its own students will launch an #EndASUU movement that will rock the universities to their foundations. Whenever ASUU goes on strike, students’ lives are jeopardised and the government’s reputation lost. ASUU members, on the other hand, simply face their other jobs, teaching in the private universities and engaging in other “side hustles.” Then at the end of the day, they get paid, teach for only a few months, then embark on another round of strike. Whoever wins the presidential election in 2023 will be derided by ASUU as an anti-education demon. ASUU thinks itself, without any evidence, to be superior to the rest of society. How can a union be more powerful than its employers and the government and hold the society down perpetually? It is a fact that ASUU members are far more dictatorial than the politicians they habitually harangue. Give ASUU all the billions in the budget: it will never be satisfied. It is permanently lodged in the clouds, scoffing at reality. I have considered ASUU’s case for years and thrown out its arguments for lack of merit. Do not just tell me how much lecturers are paid abroad; tell me the size of the economy and the academia, the population and the rules of engagement. No one in the USA gets paid for classes not taught. If you are bold and principled enough to stay off work, you should be bold and principled enough to stay off pay. ASUU strikes are no longer funny. ASUU is a present and abiding danger to this republic. Many lecturers are hungry, ill and tired of the ongoing strike, but the bloody union does not care. It is only a devil that would avoid work for a year, then gladly collect wages for doing nothing. What is pay without work if not fraud  For years through trickery and pretended patriotism, ASUU has made students’ lives miserable. It has hobbled their progress and attacked dissenters with venom. It must be denounced by right-thinking members of the Nigerian society. The Federal Government should stop being an accomplice in ASUU’s crime by paying it for work not done. The nation cannot afford to perpetually nurture ASUU’s expansive heart of darkness. My advice to the government: change your poor attitude to education, proscribe ASUU, and commit more money to the varsities. Let Governing Councils do their jobs and hold their employees accountable. Enforce no-work-no-pay to the letter. Journalists are never paid for work not done, and neither are soldiers and doctors. Why should varsity teachers?” Source: studentsmirror.com.ng 4 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 10:21pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
Where is the lie? Cc. Mynd44, lalasticalala Dominique Seun.
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Nobody: 10:28pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
Federal government don dey pay people |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Jking20(m): 10:31pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
An evil association mould for its self interest and gains. Most of them had their children studying abroad or in private universities so they don't care whether the strike last for a decade. The earlier the students realizes that, the better for them. 4 Likes |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 10:55pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
Jking20: 1 Like
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by dollynnn(f): 11:07pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
I wish I could "like" this post a million times  3 Likes |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 11:08pm On Aug 07, 2022 |
GREATEST NIGERIA STUDENT! EVERR PROFICIENT NIGERIA STUDENT! EVER CREATIVE NIGERIA STUDENT! EVER NEVER TO BE INTIMIDATED NIGERIA STUDENT! EVER MARVELOUS NIGERIA STUDENT! EVER I WANT TO GRADUATE NIGERIA STUDENT EVER I WANT TO SERVE NIGERIA STUDENT! Please where is the lie in all of the above? ASUU has kept us at home for 6 months of frustration, anger, and confusion. 10% of students affected by the strike are on the verge of dropping out! 15% of students affected by the strike have drifted into the dark side of life 35% of students affected by the strike are likely to record a drop in their grades What do we do when we see our mates starting and ending a new session in year 2022 while we are stuck in this disastrous loop? Do we fold our hands and look? #END_ASUU NOW!!! 1 Like
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by OBUAFI: 1:22am On Aug 08, 2022 |
END ASUU NOW 3 Likes |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Haywhy3579: 5:16am On Aug 08, 2022 |
Infact the height of it is that this Assu will still demand for their 6 month salary of work not done and place it as criteria in any negotiations. They are bunch of corrupt officers. 6 Likes |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Legendforte: 5:37am On Aug 08, 2022 |
Both ASUU and FGN are incorrigibly depraved. students are perishing.... 1 Like |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Dreadlock69(m): 6:38am On Aug 08, 2022 |
HaryaorGirl: You forget something some of us dun enter street hustle forget book |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by starz100: 7:37am On Aug 08, 2022 |
ASUU is not concerned about the students but their pockets. I see a lot of youths ignorantly support ASUU and I laugh. Just as the writer said they should be proscribe as no government can satisfy the greed of ASUU. Most of them have their side hussles while students destinies waste away and some always blame government. Is it only ASUU that is on government payroll, what happens to other workers. Can polytecnics teachers, colleges of education teachers try this kind of strike. Why is ASUU bigger and stronger than its own employer? Where in the world can this happen. ASUU is insistent on the strike because it always draw public sympathy going by the way the government has failed in other sectors. Infact the writer "finish work". #ENDASUU now 5 Likes |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 8:46am On Aug 08, 2022 |
OBUAFI:
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 8:47am On Aug 08, 2022 |
Haywhy3579: 1 Like
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 8:48am On Aug 08, 2022 |
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Dvdpity: 8:54am On Aug 08, 2022 |
When I see Nigerians being fantastically stupid, for a paper money that has no value, I understand why they will always be slaves to the white people, be it Americans, European or Chinese. Ignorance they say, its a disease. But to see so called educated morons parading their stupidity, reminds me that Donald trump has been right. Shit hole country. Keep destroying your country, its education, its citidal of learning and keep praying that it will come up to Europe standard. Fools. An ordinary EU citizen is far more important than your stupid governors and senators. They will always be under our feets. Fools. Let me remind you why European universities are thriving all over the globe. Our government invested millions of dollars in it. Both in the Human and material infrastructures.
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by michlins(m): 9:27am On Aug 08, 2022 |
Eya. Let ASUU be placed on same salary as the senators and permanent secretaries. Only then will I agree that their demands are fuelled by greed |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 12:16pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
michlins: How can a union be more powerful than its employers and the government and hold the society down perpetually? It is a fact that ASUU members are far more dictatorial than the politicians they habitually harangue. #EndASUU 1 Like
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by michlins(m): 12:22pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
HaryaorGirl:pay them their dues. If our universities are so good,why are the political kids not attending same |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 12:26pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
michlins: It claims to be fighting for education in the country while being completely silent on primary school education. It hardly joins students’ struggles but feeds off the adulation and support of the Organised Labour. #EndASUU We have political kkds attending Unilorin, Unilag and more 1 Like
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by michlins(m): 12:28pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
HaryaorGirl:they can't fight for all. The way to ensure ASUU strike ends is to make a law that forces all the children of politicians to go through public universities in Nigeria. That way, that money you think they don't have will come out by force 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 12:31pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
michlins: As an organization, ASUU has a sense of entitlement that borders on criminality #EndASUU 1 Like
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by michlins(m): 12:32pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
HaryaorGirl:you're repeating yourself which probably means you're a bot. Not wasting my data and time on you 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 12:37pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
michlins: Let me answer you using my own words. The only reason why politicians send their children abroad is because they can afford it. 90% of rich men and women in Nigeria prefer to send their kids abroad because they can afford it. Ask yourself this. How many rich man allows his son or daughter attend public primary schools let alone secondary schools? The fact is this, public schools are for the masses and are often overcrowded with children with different behavior. #EndASUU
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Getnewinfo: 2:46pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
We have terrorist groups like the Boko haram, bandits, Iswap etc. that terrorize innocent people and cause havoc. Then, We have another terrorist group called “ASUU” These guys are currently holding students as hostage to get their ransom payment from the federal government. In my own opinion, the Nigerian president is too soft, this terrorist group called “ASUU” should have been dealt with a long time ago. If ure not ready to do the job, RESIGN. Why use the students as hostages? They are paying their fees for crying out loud. This same ASUU members lecture in not just one university, but two or more. In conclusion, As an employee, you can’t dictate to your employer on how your salaries are paid. They should go back to their jobs or RESIGN. It’s as simple as that. 1 Like |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Getnewinfo: 3:14pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
Jking20: Exactly, their children don’t even school in Nigeria. They are just using Nigerian students to get what they want, which is money, and more money. We all passed through the university system, we know what they do. Nigerian students should wake up, wake up. A Nigerian lecturer going on National television saying 2years is too small for students to sacrifice just so the government can meet their demands is ridiculous. ASUU needs to be held accountable for what’s currently happening in the education sector today. RESIGN IF URE NOT READY TO DO THE JOB. 3 Likes |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Kiddogarcia(m): 3:29pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
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| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Betta2moro: 4:47pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
This ASUU of a thing has frustrated the very hell out of me, it is well. Now no body takes school serious anymore, ThankGod for my primary and secondary school, it really made me who I am, University only added frustration to it, but it is well. ASUU won't know what hit them by the time Federal government remembers them, you don't fight Government and win. |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Privatepart00: 7:55pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
Haywhy3579: You see wrong in Federal University workers demanding for their salary for months they didn’t work . ( I didn’t say ASUU as they ain’t the only union been owed salary by FG) . But have no issue with Federal Institute of Science and Research Center (hope I got the name correctly) that has been on strike since this 2022 yet they are paid even without going to work? |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by Adonis69: 9:14pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
I guess you're either APC paid robot or you were denied admission in a federal university and you ended up in a private mushroom university, that's the only way you could come out here and be spilling shit out of your gutter stinking shit hole mouth, because all I could read from your post is bitterness... Now, can you tell us how difficult is ASUUs demands in comparison with the financial recklessness of this buhari's useless government? Tell us the meaning of building railway lines into Niger republic and sidelining southeastern Nigeria as well as the whooping cost of the project. Tell us about the 1m dollar donation he made to the Taliban of Afghanistan earlier this year, that's over 500m naira. Tell us about the approval of 1.2b naira for the purchase of the exotic cars to the Government of Niger. Now tell us how much is ASUU demanding. If you've been to the public universities recently and see the level of decadence in the physical infrastructure and laboratory equipment as well as the technological equipment in their technical workshops, you'll run and delete this rubbish thread you just put up there, except you're just a robot without a human brain and conscience as someone has suspected you to be. Try Google ASUUs demands and their 2009 MoU agreement with the federal government. Also their 2021 agreement, which the federal government signed and approved but refused to implement, because public schools in Nigeria are for the poor, who upon graduation cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with their contemporaries in Ghana universities let alone other universities in the world. |
| Re: Time To End ASUU’s Fraud – By Abiodun Awolaja by HaryaorGirl(f): 11:21pm On Aug 08, 2022 |
Getnewinfo: THANJ YOU.. |
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