"The public universities have to consciously reform themselves or they will lose the high ground to schools that are efficient. Even professors at the University of Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University send their children to private universities now...What I want ASUU to do now is to reform the public universities from the inside. ASUU is not doing enough against corrupt lecturers, sex for marks by lecturers and so on. ASUU has to deal with the inside and reform the schools from the inside. I appeal to ASUU and all the unions. We cannot turn a four-year degree programme to a seven-year programme."
---Professor Toyin Falola
Oga Falola, good luck trying to get ASUU to help reform the Nigerian university system. Has it occurred to you that ASUU and its members thrive in the rot? That they love the absence of accountability? That reform would mean that they would have to actually do the job for which they are paid and that their work will be measured using rigorous metrics? And that those of them who harass their students sexually will be punished or prevented from being able to prey on young girls? All ASUU stands for is "getting" and "asking." It doesn't want to give anything in return. If you speak your grammar too much they will boldly tell you that they're a trade union, not a regulatory agency or advocacy group. You yourself say above that they are sending their own kids to private universities. What does that tell you about their commitment to the public university system or about their willingness to give up their impunity and become agents of reform and change? Abeg, na today?
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