Highlighting mine.
Simple answer, if that description of ASUU strategy is correct.
Dont pay well and you get poor service.
You find workers finding ways to supplement their income.
Or the workers find work elsewhere.
You can provide all the material infrastructure you like, if you dont take adequate care of the human infrastructure you are marking time.
2. 'One, in pushing for CONUAS II, ASUU conceitedly argues that Nigerian university academics represent the critical mass of scholars in the society, with the potential for transforming it. They, therefore, deserve unique conditions of service that would motivate them, like the intellectuals in other parts of the world, to attain greater efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery with regard to teaching, research and community service, and thereby stem the brain drain. However, if doctors, teachers, oil marketers and transporters, civil servants, engineers all downed tools as often as ASUU does, I am wondering what is left of the society that ASUU so piously claims to be desperate to "transform."
Response:
Do you know of any other system of higher education in Nigeria apart from that represented by ASUU? They produce the 'doctors, teachers, oil marketers and transporters, civil servants, engineers' you mention.
Why then do you describe as conceited their claims describing themselves as 'the critical mass of scholars in the society, with the potential for transforming it' ?
Is your approach not like that of a person arguing that women are wrong to agitate for special care for pregnant mothers in a world in which out-of-the womb-incubation is not possible?
Do you know of any other body in Nigeria that demonstrates the concentration of those with the skills and knowledge to give birth to high level human power as ASUU?
Even in countries where there exist strong bodies of people outside academia with highly developed skills and the networks and means of propagating those skills among others, the core of the learning system in those civilisations is the university system run by academics whose lives are dedicated to the pursuit of the highest levels of knowledge.
The US and England have carried this devotion to such a level that you are not likely to become Prime Minister pr President if you dont attend their very best universities.
With the US, its the Ivy League, with Yale and Harvard being the top contenders in this context.
In England, its Oxford or Cambridge.
There seems to an unspoken agreement that this understanding is non-negotiable, except in very rare cases, as with Margaret Thatchers successor, John Major who is described as her protege.
Obama doing a second degree at Harvard must have been a strategic decision.
His schooling there and his editorship of the the law student's journal there are invoked in his favour.
So,what are we saying about academics as a 'critical mass of scholars in the society, with the potential for transforming it'?
Where else do you find such people?
The question that follows that fallacious claim about ASUU being conceited in so describing itself may thus be seen as self answering.
We need a political environment where academics dont have to go on strike to get the ear of the govt in a land where even the head of the central bank describes most of the country's GDP as used in running the govt.
3. 'Three, in the agreement, ASUU ensures that the renegotiation team agrees to its salary demands but as soon as discussion shifts to other matters, the team only recommends. And so, on matters involving the Education Tax Fund, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), amendment of the National Universities Commission Act (2004), and funding of universities, which are major institutional channels for reforming education, what ASUU does is to recommend, agree to recommend or project.'
One could state that, as a trade union, the best ASUU can reasonably do is insist on what falls strictly within its remit as a trade union-the direct care of its members.
It then proposes to the employer what the employer's responsibilities should be with reference to other issues.
It might be idealistic to want ASUU to do more, but such idealism should not be a platform for condemnation of the union.
We need to ask- in a court of law, to what degree can such insistence on such a broader agenda hold up?
Has ASUU not been to court with the govt before?
I seem to remember such a time from the 90s.
4. 'By sanctimoniously claiming to be fighting to reverse the rot in education when it is in fact chiefly motivated by its own pecuniary benefits, ASUU is equally guilty of the deception and mischief its president oft-accuses the government of. Between Jonathan's Federal Government and ASUU, I cannot find the saint; and I find them jointly culpable for the current standstill in the country's tertiary education.'
I wish I could graphically address this subject, so overflowing am I with emotion on it.
A proverb might help.
The well being of the tree is the well being of the bird that perches on the tree.
Taking adequate care of academic staff is fundamental for adequate discharge of their responsibilities.
The adequate discharge of their responsibilities represents the core of the university system.
Secondly, ASUU always does extensive work in presenting an agenda for comprehensive higher education funding to the govt.
So, they do their duty.
5. 'Whatever his understandable grouse with the 2009 agreement or the negotiators on behalf of the government, President Goodluck Jonathan [should] fulfil its dictates. That is the moral thing to do. An agreement was signed; it must be honoured until such a time when it is due for another review.'
Thank you for that
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RE: Fisayo' Comments
Submitted by OluSegun Samson (not verified) on October 14, 2013 - 15:22.
The fact is that our government signed an agreement with ASUU. The sources of funding and road maps to achieve results were also agreed upon by both sides, but one side (government) just decided to renege on the agreement, and you are saying ASUU is greedy. How? Let us all call a spade a spade. We should all be united in demanding for the best education system and infrastructure. The money is their but they are keeping the funds so that they can expend such on rigging elections in 2015. ASUU has to lead the "fight" because the University is the institution that takes in all the "garbages" produced by the sub-standard public secondary education system in Nigeria.
Govt is the culprit in Universities Close down
Submitted by OluSegun Samson (not verified) on October 14, 2013 - 15:16.
It seems Fisayo is totally ignorant of Universities infrastructural, teaching and laboratory facilities decay in this country. Before you judge who is at fault (ASUU or Federal Government), I recommend you visit or compare these facilities (in primary, secondary to tertiary education levels (including university) in Nigeria and the following African countries: Ghana, Senegal, Benin Republic, Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Tunisia, Egypt, and many more. Compare also the lecturers remuneration in these countries and Nigeria. YOU WILL WEEP FOR YOUR COUNTRY, for the results and conclusions you will obtain and make respectively. Nigeria comes last.
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Tuesday 8th October 2013 marked 100 days that public university education in the country has been at a standstill. It has been popularly dubbed a strike — or more elegantly, an industrial action. But the reality is that what is ongoing is a feud between two groups of people — one, dominated by a greedy lot feigning sanctimony and posturing as genuine advocates of education revamp; the other, by a grossly irresponsible clique of people whose only business in governance is siphoning public funds.
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