ASUU Blames IBB for Decay in Education Sector- Punch

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has blamed former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida for the current problems bedeviling the nation’s education sector.

The union believed that the former military President presided over what it described as the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and Structural Adjustment Programme, whose policies were used to “kill public schools” in the late 1980s.

The union, which said its four-month-old strike would continue until government shows genuine commitment to the 2009 agreement, also called on government to reject “the reintroduction of SAP through the back door.”

The chairman of ASUU, Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Ade Akinola, in a statement on Monday, said the government should show patriotism and ensure that the university teachers returned to work.

Source: Punch

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They can decide to trade blames to the pre-colonial era if that'll help buttress their point. Nigeria has been a failing nation from the onset. Any era one throws blame to, would be totally justified.

What's the way forward? This no doubt is far more important than who started the decadence in the first place.

Consciously or sub-consciously many students don't mind the strike continuing till the festive season is over. For this sole reason, ASUU seem to have leverage in bringing the FG on their knees.

When students are done with the festive celebrations next year and the strike still lingers, ASUU may not have the courage to throw blames into the wind.

In the end, we shall know who is tougher..