USA Africa Dialogue Series - I pay my American lecturers one million dollars per month - Atiku

 

 

Sunday, October 31, 2010

I pay my American lecturers one million dollars per month - Atiku

Agency reporter

American lecturers at the American University of Nigeria, owned by the former vice-president and now presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, earn one million dollars per month.

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This was disclosed by Abubakar, at the second National Joint Education Stakeholders Action Coalition held in Abuja on Thursday.

According to him under the salary was part of the negotiations that he had with an American university in Washington D.C in the United States before it allowed the lecturers to come to Nigeria.

Atiku said, "Today I do not derive one kobo from all the investments I have made in education. Rather, in the university I still continue to pay the American lecturers one million dollars every month because the school fees that they are charging are not even enough to fuel the generators that they are running because the university was built to American standard. Because I have a special agreement with the American university in Washington, managing the university and everything I do must conform to American standard."

 

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And are we all supposed to clap for Atiku in awe of his ability to single handedly employ American Lecturers?  Even without questioning where he got the money from, this throw back to colonial days is despicable?

 

This is the tragedy of having theiving mediocres pretending  at substantial leadership qualities - without any  educational, moral or patriotic attributes that can stand serious scrutiny. Atiku definitely does not know what it takes to give quality post secondary education. What degrees will he dish out when no matter what he has stolen, he cannot afford to build and maintain a Y2K compliant chemistry or physics lab?

These  ignorami that establish universities in Nigeria cannot see that building upon and maintaining the existing structures is the way to go.

In the 70s and 80s , the educational standards in Nigeria were comparable to what was in America, our lecturers taught abroad on sabbatical and professors from all over the world were happy to spend their research sabbatical in Nigeria. Even today, some of the brightest lecturers in the US many of whom cut their intellectual teeth in Nigeria are Nigerians .

 

But now, Atiku feels that "American Standard" is something to write home about even as Americans themselves bemoan their country's slippage in the international league of intellectual advancement and achievement.

What a buffoon, Atiku?!  Atiku and his likes cannot even figure out that only the poorer Nigerians will willingly send their kids to these experimental contraptions and that at the rate they are stealing , there will not be enough funds left in Nigeria to pay their fees very soon? 

 

Thinking leaders all over the world are busy crafting ways of making their own people relevant at home and abroad but not ours. There is a serious war  between the East and the West for the soul of countries like Nigeria that seems lost on our entire leadership. This model of thinking that  unless  Americans or Chinese or Europeans do things for us , that they cannot be done properly must stop! In the meantime these foreign "friends" laugh at us collectively,  all the way to the bank......how sad?

 

Someone should please ask Atiku which school he went to and where he got the millions from.

 

Until people stop giving people like this audience, Nigeria will not move forward.

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