About a month ago, the ASUU embarked on a warning strike to drive home their beats into the FG ears - and maybe to allow them to do just the needful before the ultimatum elapsed. It is a pity that the ASUU strike has now become an every administration issue which had never been combated thoroughly for once. The last HIVE-Naija Engagement brought about by @samostically experienced the turn out by concerned users/students pulling out their voices and thoughts from the bottom of their minds to show their respective views.
This issue, I could say, has become generational as I had been hearing the term "ASUU strike" since I was in primary school. Maybe because I had siblings in tertiary institutions already then. It has even become one of the key prayer points that the parents/guardians of any child attending any public institutions pray to their Supreme being. The issue which has been long unresolved reincarnated to cause this year's piece. A 2009 agreement renegotiation - as far back as 13 years ago - can you imagine! and UTAS, among others, were the main bowl of contention.
I would not want to be one-sided so I will just stick to my own little research. The so-called 2009 shit has just been too far left behind which the FG cunningly just plays the game of hide-and-seek with the ASUU strike upon strike. I just think this lies all with the FG just wanting to continue the shady games by just releasing a placebo-ic fund, then the members resume and then come back in some months' time to lay down their claims again. Also, I think the representatives of the staff union may have some things up their sleeves too. Note, this is just my view here and not a confirmed thing. How were the FG representatives being just able to kind of cajole or prey upon that of the staff union to allow and accept short-lived funds and convince their members to call off the strikes, resume, and then FG laughs behind them - cos they are still coming back! Anyway, it is just my view.
On the issue of a payment system which ASUU is rooting for their University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as against the old model in use. I think here the FG are looking to reduce the usuals - the number of ghost workers and those who may be lecturing in more than one university whereby their work is not even undeserving. We can all imagine a lecturer who is supposed to teach 12 times in a semester only comes just a few days to exams and rushes to just do some shady teaching. Conversely, I suppose ASUU wants more monopoly on how they are being paid but their points are not yet being driven into the government’s mind.
Now, the strike had been extended by 2 months - whooping 8 weeks. It is and has always been, we, the students who are just the main ingredient in the continuous existence of these schools are always the ones to bear most of the brunt. I heard the ASUU president on the radio saying after a reporter asked him a question of who was going to bear the brunt of the strike - and the extension. He said that it was every concerned member including the FG, ASUU members, and the students. But I beg to disagree, it is us the students who are the most affected and not equally affected as he may have claimed.
What do you think the solution to all these maybe? I heard someone say "Every student should contribute 200 Naira for ASUU". Well, do the math.