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ASUU Strike And Future Of Nigerian Youths
By: Ebenezer Date: August 7, 2013, 8:26 am
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In a recent release, UNESCO stated that while education is a
basic human right essential for the exercise of all other
rights, there are still 774 million illiterates in the world and
many more adult women and men who are not consistently learning
what they need to leadhealthy, fulfilling and productivelives
This it says is because of a combination of several factors
making timely quality education adistant dream.
I reflected on these words and safely concluded that one of the
factors that we can surely not avoid that has sufficiently
served to distract the education system is strike. A product of
both sides of the divide myself including Nigerian universities,
I recall a time we practically lost a whole session to strikes
and many in between that saw us graduate two-three years after
our more fortunate peers whose privilegedparents transferred
overseas. I’m still not sure the victims will forget those years
so soon.
Sadly, the situation has not been too different in recent times.
To many at this moment, there appears a systematic design to
unconsciously destroy what is leftof the near crippled education
system by the duo of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
and the Federal Government. The last time I checked, most
university calendars, for those who had, have become permanently
distorted. This has increased the state of vulnerability of the
institutions and called for a quick declaration of a state of
emergency in the sector and savewhat is left of the nervous
wreck of a group called students!
So, below are highlights of my thoughts on the impact of this
menace;
1. Public enemy….employers’ dilemma
That there is a demand for qualified employees is not in doubt,
what is classically doubtfulis if the employers will have the
privilege of getting such employees. This is also considering
the current situation where over 70 per cent of eventual
graduates are alleged to be “half baked” with 10 per cent barely
knowing why they went toschool and the 20 per cent who think
they have what it takes, worry as they may realize early that
skills and connections for eventual employment are a worldapart!
2.While the real reason for embarking on the strikes
becomeblurred by the day, what is as clear as crystal is that
the youths are disillusioned with many taking on intriguing
tasks to survive or for sustenance while they await resumption.
3. Reasonable demands or presumptuous requests?
Thus far, ASUU claims its demands are valid and strategic, from
the review of retirement age of professors to progressive
increase of budgetary allocations to the education sector by 26
percent among other demands. One reasons that these demands
perhaps should be the statutory responsibilities of the Federal
Government towards the universities. So, after reneging ona host
of agreements in the past, won’t many simply conclude that the
government is becoming insincere in its dealings with ASUU? This
was captured clearly in the words of the Minister for Labour and
Productivity, Chukwuemeka Wogu, who declared that, “the
agreements reached will be impossible to implement.” This no
doubt is a strategic feedback that broke the camel’s back and
put a seal to continued strike. Now, each partyis seemingly
adamant, unyielding and hardly appears concerned about the
consequences of its stance, an impasse that has done more harm
than good.
4. Increasing mediocrity, loss of productive force>
Surely with continued destructionof the education system, one
can conclude that we would be left with mediocrity and supposed
students cut off from quality knowledge that would have
supported national development.
5. Increase brain drain and foreign expert influx
Considering that nature abhors any vacuum. increased possible
brain drain will only add to the influx of foreigners who would
be more than willing to exploit the gaps and proceed with the
once dreaded imperialistic normsand colonialist tendencies
6. Unequal yoke between the past and the future
The past challenge as posed by the non-implementation of the
“agreement” is denying the future of many students the privilege
of stable education. Dreams are being destroyed by the day as
most ladies would simply get into the family way while some men
simply get unduly distracted and hardly are able to return to
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