However, I now strongly believe that the lecturers and the politicians are merely playing hide and seek with the students. For someone who understands Nigerian politics to some degree, it is not hard to tell that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Academic Staff Union of Universities Political Party (ASUUPP) are on the same canoe boat. My sincere apologies to the few 2.5% lecturers who genuinely mean well for the Nigerian students.
Our your lecturers have been appearing and disappearing in and out of ASO Rock in the past few weeks lobbying for their selfish interest negotiating for the interest of the Nigerian students. And if the reputation of ASO Rock as the National Bakery Seat of Power is anything to go by, some of our esteemed lecturers may have gotten slices of the National bread Cake. I doubt if their conscience will allow them considering they are fighting for their pockets students. But like the old saying goes “the monkey can only vouch for the child in her womb because she may not know when the one on her back plucked a fruit”
I hear the strike will end sooner than some prophets had prophesied we expect. Evidently, the Nigerian students are the biggest losers at the end of the day. More than four months of their precious lives disrupted (for some negatively and for others positively). But for the lecturers their lives will never remain the same, at least if for only the fact that they have captured the attention of the country again with their pastime strike action. And not forgetting their pockets running over.
So if the lecturers demands are met today and they go home smiling to their girlfriends wives, what will become the fate of the Nigerian students who have endured in this struggle with them. I will tell you that free of charge, you can thank me later. Here are the ten point’s agenda I came up with;
1. The students will not smell benefit from the 1.7 trillion naira whether directly or indirectly. Except maybe for those who are in the lecturer’s good beds books.
2. The students will still be forced to buy handouts and half baked textbooks at exorbitant prices from the government lecturers. And for the students who do not comply, their days may be longer.
3. The innocent students will still be extorted before they pass certain examinations. And the lecturers will always be patronized by the students of the department of Aristology, who will always pay their way through school.
4. The students will still be made to pay the same astronomical tuition or it may even go higher.
5. The students will still be sexually harassed by government officials Mr. Lecturer.
6. Some students will unfortunately witness another strike before they eventually gain freedom graduate. I will be overwhelmed if the lecturers prove me wrong.
7. The students will still be subjected to the mercies of our poor educational system and there will be continuous tales of why they can't improve the educational standard.
8. There will still be the knowledge gap amongst Nigerian students. They will continue to graduate and overpopulate the labour market with little or absolutely no clue of where to go from there.
9. The students will not get back the last four months especially for those who have been dancing skelewu and nacking akpako doing nothing.
10. The students will not get sitting allowance for attending lectures like their counterparts in the national assembly.
The good news for the students is that strike or no strike, your destiny is in your hands and not that of ASUUPP. The strike does not hold any key to your becoming what you want to be in life. So you can drop out of school become the next tuface success story by keeping your dream alive. Don’t think of what ASUU can do for you but what you can do for your lecturers life to be fulfilling. I wish you guys all the very best.
The writer is an ASUU Strike Alumni and has been studying Strikology at the University of Naija since June 2013. He is the author of the International bestseller MY BOOK OF SUCCESS STORIES (Call 08187808666 for more enquiries)
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