Opinion: Urgent Practical Steps Towards Resolving the ASUU Strike, By Toyin Falola
We indeed have a stroke! Before we move to a stage of fatal apoplexy, we must hurry to find a cure. The first medication — for this self-inflicted and lifestyle disease — is to negotiate with all the available instruments, persuasions, and skills to return our students — the victims of our arrested development — back to school.
On the part of ASUU, the demands and strikes have become repetitive, to the point of saturation and fatigue. The behaviour of the government is equally repetitive — agree to some conditions in one year and after that renege on them in the succeeding year. Or how else could one explain that ASUU has been making the same demands from every successive government in Nigeria for over two decades? The same ASUU members are aware that the members of the public are not always carried along.
To those unfamiliar with what I am saying, they are all about agreements dating back to 2009, with a further conversation that led to the 2019 Memorandum of Action. Thus, to people opposed to ASUU, they should know that the Union is fighting over agreements that the government has acceded to and signed to uphold. What became added to it was the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System , which ASUU had rejected as far back as 2013.
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