On Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:30:58 UTC+1, tovadepoju wrote:
This looks to me like fiction-'However, and this is a big "however," when you advance that critique in the context of your demands, when ASUU uses that critique to anchor its demands and to justify its expectations and culture of entitlement, it is self-defeating and self-indicting. It advertises the moral and ethical compass of ASUU to the public, portraying its members as no different from the politicians whose compensation they are criticizing. Academics are supposed to reject, critique, and proffer ways to curb excessive financial burdens on the state, not seek to pile on. This is where I agree with Senator Adeyeye. How is it a productive argument when you're basically saying that you want what the politicians have or a certain percentage of what the politicians have, using the politicians' outrageous compensation as a baseline for your own demands. Why are you starting from a compensatory reference point that is universally condemned as vulgar and excessive?'Has ASUU ever stated what I highlighted above in Moses claim?I am curious about this-'The truth is that the majority of our university graduates are coming out with poor aptitudes and poor language, analytical, and subject skills'
Is this really true?On one side is Moses, who describes most of his teachers as bad teachers and argues that good outcomes from Nigerian university education-from what year or decade, please?- are 'Exceptions...but one should be careful not to use them as representatives of the entire system.'On the other side is myself who describes my education in terms of what Moses characterises as a first class education with stellar teachers.Why are Ikhide and Moses seeing these bad students, representative of the majority of Nigerian university graduates, and I cant see them?My own former students, obtaining their PhD from Oxford, another doing a PhD in another English university, one attending a most prestigious MIT graduate program, others working in banking, teaching, academia and other sectors of the Nigerian economy do not fit this description.The stream of University of Nigeria, Nsukka graduates in the fine arts, from the 60s to the present, from the days of Chike Okeke to Dimprozulike and others more recent who have become a fixture in the global African art scene do not fit this description.The youngest generation of Nigerian artists, such as Adeola Olagunju from the Ladoke Akintola University of Science and Technology, do not fit this description.Striking Nigerian art critic Ekiko Ito Inyang-you could Google his name- does not fit this description.Tolu Ogunlesi who graduated in 2004 from what he describes as a Citadel of Nothing, University of Ibadan, one of other Citadels of Nothing as he described Nigerian universities, does not fit that description.I read Ikhide's tribe of Facebook readers, one of whom stated, in chorus with Ikhidespeak social criticism, that in all her activities today her time in the so called ASUU classrooms contributed nothing to,though she did not respond to my question of how she gained her skills as a blogger and her skills relation to other activities she is engaged in- and the tribe of readers of the see-nothing-good-with-Nigeria critic do not fit that description, some of them being very well expressed.Chijioke Ngobili whose testimony about UNN after his 2011 graduation I posted here does not fit that mold.I belong to a good number Nigerian listserves, have many Nigerian Facebook friends, belong to various Nigerian Facebook groups and read various Nigerian Facebook pages, read Nigerians' comments on various platforms such as Sahara Reporters and Naira Land, and I cant find these people, this majority of Nigerian graduates who are coming out with 'poor aptitudes and poor language, analytical, and subject skills'How does one find these people?thankstoyinOn Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Toyin,Uncritical loyalty to ASUU, your employer, or to anything/anyone is a disease. You seem strangely beholden to ASUU even though you're no longer an ASUU official. For reasons best known to you and your maker, you prefer fighting ASUU's cause to fighting for our long-suffering Nigerian students. Hence, for you ASUU can do no wrong, and it's all the fault of the bad evil government.A few quick notes:"When a country at the bottom rungs of the global economy like Nigeria chooses to remunerate its political appointees at much higher levels than is done in the US, the world's most powerful economy, an economy Nigeria is perhaps centuries behind, is critique of such meaningless, anti-development expenditure equivalent to equating oneself with a politician?"Well, you can critique the government's wastefulness and the world-record compensation of public office holders and legislators from sun up to sun down. I will agree with that critique a thousand percent. Millions of Nigerians are doing exactly that on a daily basis. The compensation package of public servants is a source of permanent outrage among the citizenry, which is why you rarely can open a newspaper these days without encountering stories or Oped-Eds criticizing the waste, corruption, and bloated perks of public officials. ASUU members are citizens too, so obviously they should feel and express this outrage and articulate it as compelling critiques of this culture of waste.However, and this is a big "however," when you advance that critique in the context of your demands, when ASUU uses that critique to anchor its demands and to justify its expectations and culture of entitlement, it is self-defeating and self-indicting. It advertises the moral and ethical compass of ASUU to the public, portraying its members as no different from the politicians whose compensation they are criticizing. Academics are supposed to reject, critique, and proffer ways to curb excessive financial burdens on the state, not seek to pile on. This is where I agree with Senator Adeyeye. How is it a productive argument when you're basically saying that you want what the politicians have or a certain percentage of what the politicians have, using the politicians' outrageous compensation as a baseline for your own demands. Why are you starting from a compensatory reference point that is universally condemned as vulgar and excessive?This is precisely why smart academics elsewhere never reference politicians' compensations and perks when lamenting their own. They may critique these compensations in their classrooms, in private, and in their capacity as concerned citizens, but when it comes to articulating their grievances and expectations, the politician's pay and perk cannot underpin a winning argument.On my anti-ASUU stance, please bear with me. There is a method to my critique. I am an interested stakeholder, as I have said many times. I have nieces and nephews in the system and I support them financially. So, I am interested in what they are getting or not getting out of the system. Which is why the issue of poor instruction and poor pedagogical outcomes is dear to me. One expects the issue of good teaching to be at the top of ASUU's menu of concerns, but it is not. It is not even on the menu. ASUU will not subject its members to any quality control and standards-improving mechanisms. Instead, ASUU's culture of denial and failure to take partial responsibility for the rot in the system conditions it to default to blaming external actors and factors.Further, I have said that I am also a victim of ASUU's problem of poor instruction and strike-giddiness. When I saw your bewilderment at my claim to have been victimized my poor instruction, I shook my head and realized that I needed to do an elaborate response explaining my point. However I never got around to it and that strand of the discussion was overtaken by events.First, my university education was slowed down by two lengthy strikes. It was not pleasant sitting at home idling away, not knowing when school would resume. I would not wish such a fate on anyone.Second, and more important, it does not give me joy to say this but I had MANY lecturers who did not take teaching seriously, who at best saw it as a necessary nuisance. As a result, my university experience was largely underwhelming, even disappointing. To make up for the dearth and poor quality of teaching, the nature of which I have already described in previous posts, including the case of lecturers who quite frankly needed to take college classes themselves and needed remedial English classes to boot, I read a lot on my own. It is easy to look at me and say "how could he have been a victim of the culture of poor instruction in Nigerian universities--he turned out great." So, without going into too much detail that may be seen as disrespect to some of my past lecturers or as arrogance on my part, let me make two general points:1. I succeeded in the university IN SPITE of MOST of my lecturers and their failure or inability to teach. Many of them did not want to be teachers--we could tell.2. I also succeeded because of the dedication and commitment of VERY FEW (emphasis on very few because they were a tiny minority of the lecturers that taught me in the university) lecturers, who were passionate about their jobs, showed up consistently in class, taught well and didn't simply dictate outdated notes, mentored, gave you audience, pointed you to sources, marked your scripts and sometimes gave you helpful comments, did not create hassles for you by losing your scripts, and certainly did not sexually harass your female classmates.So it is not a mystery that I succeeded, or that in the midst of the rot a few good students have emerged and are still emerging and going on to succeed in various professions at home and abroad. There are other variables that help explain this phenomenon of exceptions, which statisticians may be better equipped to speak to, but even in the US where I live one often comes across stories of brilliant, talented and motivated kids emerging from the worst, neglected public schools. It's not a mystery.Exceptions do happen, but one should be careful not to use them as representatives of the entire system. The truth is that the majority of our university graduates are coming out with poor aptitudes and poor language, analytical, and subject skills. And to blame it all on funding and the FG's well known culture of neglect, corruption, incompetence, and indifference is deceptive. ASUU needs to take some responsibility and stop blaming primary and secondary school teachers, funding levels, NUC fake accreditations, and students' fondness for ipads and ipods--anything but ASUU members themselves.If some folks want to blame only the FG and its failings, good luck to them. As for me, I insist on holding both the FG and ASUU accountable and responsible for what is happening to our youth.--On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovad...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Ogugua.This Moses anti-ASUU stance is at times tiresome.If a nation spends most of its money on running the govt what will be left for development?Did the CBN gov himself nor declare categorically that most of the country's money goes to running the govt?When a country at the bottom rungs of the global economy like Nigeria chooses to remunerate its political appointees at much higher levels than is done in the US, the world's most powerful economy, an economy Nigeria is perhaps centuries behind, is critique of such meaningless, anti-development expenditure equivalent to equating oneself with a politician?thankstoyin--On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Anunoby, Ogugua <Anun...@lincolnu.edu> wrote:
For some friends and supporters, Adeyeye can do no wrong. He cannot be a subject of legitimate commentary and other discourse even though it is his choice to be a Senator. He is now a career legislator. I do not know the man. I would not change anything though if I did. I still do not understand that he finds the company that he is in, one he should be part of if he is the man that some people say that he is. Whether or not he was always duly elected to the high office of legislator is a conversation for another time. Everyone knows about selections for elections in Nigeria.
MO may have read my post but may not have fully understood it. I question Adeyeye's posturing on the ASUU challenge which strikes me as roundly hypocritical. He sits there as a Senator, drawing compensation that he knows he and his colleagues have not earned, and are therefore undeserving of. He has lived and worked overseas. He must be presumed to be not oblivious of the imperatives of and compulsion for efficient budgetary allocation and utilization of public funds, especially in a developing country. He knows that the resources expended on him and his colleagues for little or useless work can be better employed in the true service of the Nigerian people. He still finds it in good conscience and taste to criticize concerned fellow citizens who at a high personal cost to themselves and their families, have undertaken to fight a good, public interest fight that he is better than most Nigerians, positioned to fight but has meekly fought at best. All he seems to be willing to do is talk sometimes about waste in government. What about some action from him? Has anyone thought for a moment about what might may continue to happen to higher education funding in Nigeria, if ASUU had not brought this overdue subject to the front burner again? Adeyeye and his colleagues would remain seated in Abuja, soaking in and sedated by corruption and waste, plundering Nigeria's abundant resources on themselves, families, friends, and frivolous causes.
Like Adeyeye, many Nigerians have their children studying outside Nigeria. Unlike him, these Nigerians and I demand that the Nigerian government recognizes that the proper and competitive funding of public education in Nigeria is a higher priority than the undeserved and imprudent compensation of legislators and other public officials, and does what needs to be done. Adeyeye talks about what he calls resentment driving ASUU members determination to change government's public education policy. What in the woods is wrong with legitimate resentment? Resentment is sometimes justified. If Adeyeye is right, ASUU members' resentment is better than warranted. Enough of holier-than- thou posturing. Talk is cheap. Action is it. Let progressive change begin.
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googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Moses Ebe Ochonu
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:01 AM
To: USAAfricaDialogue
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Senator Adeyeye responds to ASUU
Ogugua,
At this point I have to wonder if you're up to some mischief, since you chose to completely ignore everything I wrote and and go on a tedious tangent. You can't even take yes for an answer, as though you're simply hungry for a debate. You're are largely debating with yourself now since I began my post by saying I agree with you on everything you said about the government's failings, waste, corruption, etc. The Senantor clearly does too, going by his write-up. I don't waste my intellectual energies on the government. The government has enough critics, and there is no critique of the Nigerian government that is new or breaks new ground. One gets jaded after a while. But I digress.
You are completely wrong when you insinuate that Senator Adeyeye has not criticized the NAtional Assembly's excesses and outrageous compensation culture. Just plain wrong. For goodness sake, even his rejoinder to the ASUU fellow is dripping with radical, courageous criticism of the waste and corruption that plagues the government and the national assembly. To boot, it recommends very radical measures for curbing the compensation of National Assembly members and public office holders. Did you even bother to read his piece, or my piece before putting finger on keyboard? You're making the same mistake as Dr. Ajiboye, the ASUU official who attacked Adeyeye for using public funds and his national assembly jumbo pay to send his children abroad for education without first doing a basic background check, which would have revealed to him that Adeyeye left Nigeria in 1980 with his family, twenty years before he entered politics and that his children would have advanced in their various educational and professional pursuits by the time he entered politics in 1999.
In your case, you categorically stated that 1) Senator picked on ASUU first or that "he has chosen to start with ASUU"; and 2) that he has not criticized the corruption and profligacy in public governance and among his colleagues in the national assembly. Both claims are categorical falsehoods. The first claim is easy to demolish since Senator Adeyeye has been at the forefront of the struggle for probity in the National Assembly since 1999, proving that ASUU is not his first target. Before now, I don't even remember him ever criticizing the union, at least not publicly. Conversely, he criticized his colleagues on the floor of the House several times for their excessive pay and perks, and for the Ghana-Must-Go culture of corruption that routinely plagued the House between 1999 and 2007. There are press clippings to testify to this if you care to go into the archive. Along with Hon. Uche Onyeagocha and one or two other progressive members of the House whose names I cannot recall, he protested loudly against the House leadership and his colleagues when the first Fourth Republic legislative scandal broke over furniture allowances. They were the so-called "trouble maker" caucus in the House, the spoilers detested by their colleagues for foiling and protesting against malfeasance and corrupt deals in the House. Adeyeye was not only a thorn in the flesh of his colleagues, he constantly railed on the floor of the House and in media interviews about waste, excessive compensation packages, and corruption in public governance. Yes, he and Comrade Uche Onyeagocha were outnumbered by their greedy colleagues and were never able to effect the radical anti-corruption and accountability reforms they envisioned for the House, but they at least never stopped protesting their colleagues excesses. Not only that, I remember that tiny caucus declining to participate in foreign travels, allowances, and perks they deemed questionable and excessive. They didn't just talk the talk, they walked it too. For me that's courage.
When the Third Term bribery scandal broke, most legislators were coy on the details and nature of the bribe loot. Not Adeyeye. He was one of a few who took to television and the airwaves to reveal the details of the bribing and how he turned down the money, all this at a time when OBJ and his folks were denying any bribery related to Third Term. When Nuhu Ribadu, Obasanjo's hatchet anti-corruption man publicly denied that huge bribes had been offered to legislators to induce their acquiescence to the Third Term gambit, it was Professor Adeyeye who publicly debunked Ribadu's claim and challenged the latter to a public televised debate on the subject. Ribadu never took him up on the offer.
Senator Adeyeye may not have been as vocal in the senate as he was in his two terms in the House, but to his credit he has not partaken in the outrageous perks either. Which is precisely why he has the moral and ethical standing and courage to criticize that culture in his write-up and to call for radical cuts to the pay of public officials and legislators, himself included.
The man has earned his stripes and along with them the right to criticize an increasingly disruptive and misguided body like ASUU. It is easy and cheap to stay on the outside and take pot shots at politicians, bureaucrats, legislators and others inside the system. We all do it because it is easy, comes with no cost, and is no act of courage. What is not easy and denotes courage is to be an insider and be able to muster the gumption to criticize the system and one's colleagues. That's what Senator Adeyeye has CONSISTENTLY done since entering public life. I am pretty sure he has his failings like the rest of us but I know of no other Nigerian politician who is capable of playing this courageous role of an insider critic, a role which comes with costs that are both pecuniary and relational. And I know of no other politician in the Fourth Republic who has rejected excess salaries and perks and/or has donated the excess portion of their jumbo pay to charity and constituent projects as the Senator is doing. In Nigeria we prefer blanket labels that do not isolate cases that buck the narrative. And, of course, we see critics as enemies. That is one of ASUU's many foibles. They won't even take some responsibility for the obviously poor state of teaching in our universities, a reality that continues to doom the future of most of our university-going youths.
So far during this FG-ASUU wahala, ASUU and its members have blamed the following for the poor state of instruction in our universities and for the production of poor graduates: 1) Funding, 2) the NUC giving out fake or undeserved accreditations, 3) students who are distracted by ipads and ipods!!! No soul searching on the part of ASUU and its members, no taking of responsibility, absolutely no self-critique, and no self-critical conversations about improving the standards of instruction that would demand more from ASUU members.
Criticizing the government is the easiest thing a Nigerian can do. Criticizing a union like ASUU takes courage and conviction. I commend Adeyeye for the courage. He is criticizing both sides, apportioning blames and folly on both sides. He has not spared his colleagues or the system in which he operates. That, along with the fact that he is in solidarity with ASUU on the funding issue, should blunt any attempt to portray him as an ASUU-hating politician.
And to close, I am forced to ask what you'd do differently if you were in Adeyeye's position, resign from the senate--or stay away entirely from politics? Would that not amount to abandoning the prison to the prisoners? Is it inherently wrong to go into politics, to be a politician? Is public service a domain that academics should not venture into? I read your post and I can't quite understand what you expect of Senator Adeyeye. If you don't agree with his criticism of ASUU, fine. But you have failed to demonstrate what it is that you think he is doing wrong.
The FG-ASUU agreement that you speak of has been litigated extensively on this forum and found not to be a cut and dried document that you and a few other folks portray it as. In fact because it started life as an ambiguous set of general principles, it has been the subject of review and renegotiation before--in 2012, a process that resulted in the oft-cited MOU. I lived in Michigan and I now live in Tennessee, states with a strong auto workers union, and I know that the auto workers union routinely renegotiate signed contracts with the auto companies, with the former often giving concessions to the auto companies in the overall interest of the industry's survival and in the full knowledge that certain demands and aspects of signed contracts are either unimplementable or are too vague to be considered binding. In that spirit, Adeyeye is not saying that the government should repudiate agreements with ASUU; he is saying that in implementing these agreements, which are vague and open to multiple interpretations, each side should give some ground and that ASUU in fact should rethink some of its more unreasonable demands. What is wrong with this? After all, are the two sides not mostly haggling over how, when, and at what pace to implement the general principles already agreed upon?
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Anunoby, Ogugua <Anun...@lincolnu.edu> wrote:
Has the Senator ceased to be an academic? He calls himself professor does he not? He should start by exemplifying his righteousness with the corrupt elite group that he apparently is part of should he not? When and how often have you heard or read that he preached/preaches to his colleagues and other leeches in government on their profligate practice of public governance and betrayal of trust? Why has he chosen to start with ASUU? "They" traditionally pick soft targets/victims do they not? Thank goodness ASUU is not a too-soft one. The Igbo say that true beauty starts from the inside. Righteousness should too.
Who is to say that the National Assembly does not have a higher annual budgetary allocation than Nigeria's tertiary education sector does, if all the Assembly's members' cryptic financial steals are properly booked and reported? Why does the National Assembly not insist that all in government keep all transactions' books properly and sanction violators? The Senator knows that that government cannot afford to keep an agreement it entered freely with ASUU, signed without duress, and announced to the Nigerian public. He does not seem to know however, that Nigeria cannot afford the cost and nature of government that he has been proudly part of. Is this ignorance of his one of convenient choice? We know of course that awareness and knowledge can be conveniently a'la carte for perfunctory politicians.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:44 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Senator Adeyeye responds to ASUU
Yes, yes, and yes, to all that you wrote above. But you seem to have completely missed the overarching point that Adeyeye was making, which is distilled in a single sentence, which I am reproducing here: "our task [as academics] is to curb needless privileges rather than add to them."
And that is the point, that academics should not be comparing themselves with politicians, or their pay and benefits to politicians.' In the US, academics never reference politicians' remuneration in discussing their needs or greivances. During the economic meltdown, state legislators were cutting and slashing allocation to state universities. Did they cut their own pay and perks? No. In fact many state legislators increased their perks in the midst of the recession, causing public outrage. Yet in lamenting the cuts to public universities' budgets by states, I never once heard or read academics reference the salaries or perks of those responsible for the cuts--state legislators. That's because they knew that it would be a losing argument, a form of self-indictment when you begin to draw comparisons between your needs and what is recognized all over the world as politicians' penchant for awarding themselves outrageous benefits while denying same to regular citizens. Nigeria may be an egregious instance of this, but it is global phenomenon.
Academics and their expectations and tastes are not supposed to mirror those of politicians. If your value system mirrors that of politicians, you should never have entered academia to begin with. Which is precisely the problem in Nigerian higher education: the system is filled with many folks who don't belong there, who don't subscribe to the humanistic values of academia, who are motivated solely by pecuniary impulses, and who, as a result, frame their demands and priorities using baselines established by profligate politicians and their fiscal conducts.
Senator Adeyeye, to his credit, has been a lone voice in the national assembly, beginning from his days in the House of Rep, calling for a radically downward review of salaries, allowances, and benefits for legislators and office holders. When he won the senatorial election two years ago, he publicly declared in a Saharareporters interview that, given his well known objection to the outrageous salaries and perks of legislators, he would take from his senate salary what he would have been earning as a Professor in the US and donate what is left to his community/constituent in the form of projects and charity. He is the only federal legislator to my knowledge who has made such a public declaration.
He has again declared that advocacy of pay cut for legislators and political officers in the write-up under discussion. Quite courageous if you ask me. He cannot be called a hypocrite on this matter. And he cannot be portrayed as a typical politician, as intolerant ASUU officials are trying to do, because he is not a typical politician. He is a heterodox political figure bucking and upending the trend. If anything, he is being very modest as some of us know the fight that he and people like Hon. Uche Onyegocha fought against corruption in the House of Rep between 1999 and 2003. How many of us will be able to maintain our moral and ethical commitments in the orbit of a corrupt, rotten institution like the Nigerian senate? I particularly like the fact that senator Adeyeye is not behaving in a politically opportunistic manner in regard to the strike, especially as an opposition who could have easily slammed the FG's handling of the crisis and aligned himself opportunistically with ASUU as many opposition figures have already done to score political points. This, to me, shows courage and conviction.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Anunoby, Ogugua <Anun...@lincolnu.edu> wrote:
"He (Senator Adeyeye) is saying what some of us without loyalty to ASUU have been saying---that some of the demands and expectations of ASUU are simply unreasonable, even outrageous when juxtaposed with academic cultures all over the world… Sometimes I wonder what some of these demands and expectations are modeled on. "
It is heartening to know that the Senator has something to say about the " demands and expectations" of a tiny, tiny, select, leechy minority of Nigerians- legislators and other public officials whose demands and expectations are equally "outrageous ( or even worse) when juxtaposed with public service cultures all over the world " and are met without fail? Many Nigerians and I sometimes wonder what some of those demands and expectations all of which are regularly met out of government budgets, regardless of budgetary constraints and stresses are modeled on.
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googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Moses Ebe Ochonu
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Senator Adeyeye responds to ASUU
Okay o, di show don start o. I'm happy that our progressive friend, Senator Sola Adeyeye has waded into this matter with commonsensical, constructive suggestions and reasoned critiques of the ASUU position.
I know Professor Adeyeye personally, and he cannot be branded an establishment person or a hater of ASUU. He is calling it as he sees it. He is saying what some of us without loyalty to ASUU have been saying---that some of the demands and expectations of ASUU are simply unreasonable, even outrageous when juxtaposed with academic cultures all over the world. Sometimes I wonder what some of these demands and expectations are modelled on. I know we like to copy things from other climes and cite academic conventions from the West as gold standards of compensation, but most of the remunerative demands and innovations that ASUU has pushed and continues to push are alien to American, British, Canadian, and other Western academic systems.
I agree with Senator Adeyeye "that the implacable demands by ASUU are fueled by resentment at the cult of obscene privileges which Nigerian politicians have become." However, this comparison is misleading and misguided, for as Senator Adeyeye stated, "our task [as academics] is to curb needless privileges rather than add to them"
I hope that Dr. Ajiboye will take Senator Adeyeye up on his challenge to debate the ASUU-FG problem on prime time Television. It would go a long way to enlighten the public and cut through the all the sophistry.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:
"First, the National Assembly of Nigeria should henceforth appropriate at least 26% of Nigeria's current revenue to education alone. Second, Government in Nigeria, especially the Federal Ministry of Education, has been denigrated into a beast of burden. The metastasis of asphyxiating bureaucracy demands the streamlining of the endless parastatals that drain resources while making little or no contribution to national well-being and progress. Third, to raise revenue for funding a national redemption program in education, all imports should attract a mandatory education tax of one percent. Fourth, beginning from January 1, 2014 till December 31, 2018, all workers in Nigeria must contribute 5% of their income as education taxes. Embezzling any amount of these revenues targeted for education should be taken as an act of treason. This should attract the most severe penalty such as impeachment, imprisonment and perhaps death penalty. Fifth, the costs for running the offices of all elected and appointed political office holders should immediately be pruned by 50%. Something tells me that the implacable demands by ASUU are fueled by resentment at the cult of obscene privileges which Nigerian politicians have become. But our task is to curb needless privileges rather than add to them."
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