" The federal government cannot provide everything. It seems to me that the more they (ASUU) get, the more they ask for. But government must never promise what it cannot fulfill. And I am surprised, that those who negotiate with ASUU did not say the right things. I think the negotiators (on government's side) should be courageous enough to tell ASUU about what cannot be done. I blame the negotiators for failing to see what is beyond the government. The answer must be no (when impossible demands are made). You've got to look at the financial implication.
But ASUU, really, has got to look at the overall interest of the country. There's a tendency, in today's Nigeria, to take and take and take, rather than to give. In my time, in the 60s, 70s, we were more concerned with giving. But today, things have changed. And I hear that allowances are being requested for examining students. Now, when you begin to break down your duties as a lecturer, if everything else is allowance, allowance, allowance; what are you then being paid a salary for?
There is a need for ASUU to sit back and ask, how can we go on like this? What is Ghana doing differently that we are not. Why do our children now prefer to go to Ghana? It's because of these disruptions. And when you don't care if a student spends eight years in the university, that is not good enough.
I had a very bright student, who went to the U.S after training in Nigeria and attended an interview. And there were (about) 40 candidates and he came tops. They looked at his CV (curriculum vitae) again, then, they wrote to me, wondering, 'you wrote so glowingly about this young man, but he spent about nine years studying medicine, so he couldn't have been exceptional.' Until I told them that three of those years were "strike years." And they could not understand what "strike" meant. In very few countries of the world does that happen."
- Oladipo Akinkugbe, Emeritus Professor of medicine
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http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/133910-why-i-have-an-intellectual-disdain-for-wealth-by-akinkugbe
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