ASUU SHOULD SUSPEND THE STRIKE IN HONOUR OF IYAYI

    Not less than four months now that the academic activities in public universities in Nigeria had gone to the stream of memory due to the marathon strike the Association of Staff Union of the Universities ASUU embarked on purposely to secure funds from the federal government of the country with the aim of rebuilding the decayed structured in the federal universities across the nation. The journey started well, ASUU keeps walking on eggshells but the federal government failed to make the dream of 2009 between the association and the highest cadre of government becomes a reality.

    Due to this fact, ASUU walks on their talk as they say ‘no money no work’ and the government, in the same breathe, ‘no work no pay,’ so the battle begun since July first this year, continuing to rain up to this moment. The hope arose when the sun of the strike reached the middle of the sky, the president called for the re-conciliatory meeting in order to put a stop to the wrangle between them – everyone was happy! This great development was another game the Association of Staff Union of the Universities begun few days ago to stop the hisses in the public universities in the country. Relentlessly, they performed well to make this happen even to a state that a giant member lost his life – Prof. Festus Iyayi, in the sweat for humanity, the future of Nigeria.  

     Iyayi’s death was the great tragedy ASUU ever recorded so far. The deceased must not go like the snake passing on the rock without a great mark – the association would mourn his death. Because it is so hard to lose the loved ones and erase it with just mere breath in the heart, ASUU halts to live with the issues tabled before them, no more meeting to death. ‘Things fall apart.’

    Besides, the effect of the strike is on the student. Four months ago, without academic activities, students are doing nothing. It is said that the idle mind is the devil’s workshop. Many students, especially the cultist would have accounted for many atrocities during this industrial strike by ASUU. But some are not even cultist. What about ladies who are mature to marry? Due to their academic career, they suspend their marital life at the expense of the education. Believe it some of them, the one that cannot withstand, would have impregnated and name the child ‘ASUU Muyiwa’ that is ASUU brought this.

     The effect is not only on the ladies, even the serious ones, reading veraciously to obtain their good certificate, are now dwindled in studies. Especially the final year student, where are they now? The brain is not really intact to write their long essay because academic cells is going out their bodies as they also go out of the academic four the past four months. Men among them would ways to earn money, so they are in another realm of life. Some are now sales boys, some are internet fraudsters. Education is dying!

     Many parents who manage to send their children to the federal universities are biting their fingers. While their child in school, they manage to live their lives and the child withstand his burden. Through aim from friends, he manged to have three square meals, but the family are now in single bind, the parents’ burden increases as the child puts his. 

     Many of this cannot be said in single minute, if there is a problem  solution is the next answer. The strike has caused so many thing; student thinks twice to remember the matriculation number, atrocities spreads like wild fire and parents tired of financial shortages, death among the goal . To end this, ASUU needs to call off the strike in honour of Prof. Festus Iyayi’s death so that the future grief would be prevented.