USA Africa Dialogue Series - Before Ninth December ends: Matters Arising

Today is Ninth of December, the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Thirteen, After Christ!
In a few minutes, the day will roll away, never to be lived again this year or any other year. Many woke up to the news this day of the impending sack of recalcitrant university lecturers who have downed tools for the past five months or so in Nigerian public universities.

Many months of pleas. Many months of indifference. Many months of propaganda. Many months of hope. Hope that the industrial action will be suspended as soon as one could say, Jack! And the grace of four or five days given by 'Gen. N. Wicke(d), the Supreme Overseer of the Education Forces, through his Chief Public Adviser on Universities Matters, Colonel O. Julius, for the obsequies for ASUU's late former leader was well received.

Now that the furore expected from the last announcement was dimmed and drowned by the exit of a global icon of true democracy, justice and freedom, the Madiba himself, before Ninth December finally strolls into oblivion, it is pertinent to note a few things.

The purported new demands from The Union are now being attended to and no more legitimate ground remains for the Union to remain on strike. Otherwise, the strike force will strike names of the lecturers out of the nominal roll of their employers, the Councils.

Imagine this scenario: the Governing Councils, through their Vices, not Virtues, will in less than Thirty-six hours, receive their share of the 200 billion National Cake for Infrastructure from General Wicke(d), after striking out the names of their erstwhile employees who fought GALANTLY for this cake while they watched from the sidelines, knowing fully well that the final rations will only go to nourish their throats!

Mandela would not have endorsed that.

Let justice prevail. Let the dues and juice to the striking lecturers come. Let the SEAL be appended on the DOCUMENT before the Chief Justice of the Nation, who is a Mother, with all pious lieutenants as WITNESSES!

Before the Ninth of December rolls away, that is my demand. Lest Gen. Wicke(d) calls it new again.

Madiba, requiscat en pace! May your legacies live on. May our land throw up your type, one day.

Diran

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