₦airaland Forum

edogu:
Pay themselves? How? Are they the employer? I'm trying to let you know that without the agitation there won't be fund to cater for the education sector.

Softmirror:
YES! ASUU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PAY THEIR STRIKING LECTURES FROM THE MONEY ASUU AS A UNION COLLECTS FROM STAKE HOLDERS OF THE UNION MEANT TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL STABILITY FOR STRIKING LECTURES FOR AS LONG AS THE CHOOSE NOT TO GO BACK TO WORK. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT TURNS TO A NO WORK NO PAY CIRCUMSTANCE. I HOPE ASUU SELF DESTROY ITSELF THIS TIME AROUND SO THAT IN THE FUTURE THEIR CALL FOR STRIKE WILL WON'T BE WELCOMED BUT RIDICULED.

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edogu:
Well, I don't really understand your prayer. As for me, I pray we find a lasting solution to all these.

rusher14:
When government pays we say ASUU were the brains behind it.

When it fails government is the cause.

Can ASUU ever be wrong?

edogu:
I'm not trying to paint ASUU as a perfect union. After all the people we regard today as VCs, were once ASUU members.

My response is a reaction to the initial post which paint the FG in good light (which is not bad). I'm trying to also let the same readers know that ASUU too should be given some credits. Without them, some of these funds wouldn't have been released, not to extent we see today.

The problem of education is in two folds: underfunding and corruption. The little we have received from the FG, what have we done with it. This is why ASUU insisted on visitation panels. Till today FG is yet to release the outcome or the report of the visitation panel.

Under President Goodluck's administration, 250 billion was released for education. Within this period, there was no strike. Unfortunately, several universities have not given an account on how these money were spent. You see the effect of corruption.

Softmirror:

DO A CASE STUDY ON A.B.U ZARIA UNDER MAMAN KOTANGORA DURING ABACHA REGIME. DO ANOTHER ON UNI ILORIN UNDER PROF OLOYEDE.

rusher14:
Did you read where university audits were never published?

Nigerians need to tell themselves the truth.

Nigerians are corrupt across the board.

Getting anything to function as seen anywhere else is an illusion.

edogu:
Will you be proud to send your children to public schools (primary and secondary)? Why? Shebi because of the decay. The people who send their wards to these schools, do so for two reasons. Lack of money or they are not related to them. Are private schools better? No! Those ones are there to exploit the parents. If I tell you what's going on in those private schools, you will marvel.

We really need to go back to the drawing board. We need leaders who have the political will to lead. We equally need followers who are willing to demand some level of transparency from their leaders without fear.

edogu:
Are you saying that ASUU should be scraped? Well under Prof. Oloyede, the university unions were banned from strike. Yeah, the university enjoyed some moment peace for quite some time. Did it solve the problem yes and no. Yes, she enjoyed some peace . No, it was just a matter of time before the other union will rejoin their sister union. The benefits ( funding, earned allowances etc) that the university and her members were enjoying during this ' peaceful period were outcome of ASUU's struggle. This made them to be seen as selfish union. The rest will fight while they sit at their comforts to enjoy the benefits of other people's struggle.

In summary, I agree with you that under the period of Prof. Oloyode the university enjoyed some moment of peace but those peace were at the detriment of other unions who were out there fighting. Without their agitation, UNILORIN wouldn't have enjoyed some of the benefits they are enjoying today.