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TIMELINE: 4 years and still counting… how ASUU strike has affected students since 1999In his first official reaction to the ongoing strike by Nigeria’s academic body, Education Minister Adamu Adamu, stunned some of us when he said he was looking for the Academic Staff Union of Universities .

Then, the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, had boasted that there would be no strike. He said government would meet the union’s demands. In the same vein, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to fulfil government’s agreement with ASUU. By the time the union declared a work-free day on February 7 to sensitise the students and Nigerians about an impending strike, it was obvious that the strike would commence except the Nigerian government was able to pull a magic.

I pity the students. It took some of them years to gain admission because of the problem of oversubscription in public universities and other factors like quota system. By the time some of them leave school finding job may be difficult. They would have passed the average age that employers are looking for. Employers often peg their recruitment age at between 25 and 30 for fresh graduates. This complicates issues for them.

To revitalise public universities, it was agreed that all federal universities require over one trillion Naira, specifically, one trillion, five hundred and eighteen billion, three hundred and thirty-one million and five hundred and forty-five thousand Naira between 2009 and 2011 and sustain the intervention continuously. This has been the crux of the matter. The federal government has failed to inject this money into the federal universities. And I doubt if it will ever do.

So, the question is, who is the ultimate beneficiary of the so-called scholarships for the few lecturers that are able to benefit from these government interventions? The foreign nations — they not only collect our money as tuition, they also take away our intellectuals. They gained all the way. Who has bewitched Nigeria?Absolutely, but for ASUU, the decay we see in our university system now would have been much more.

When parents pay, they will demand more accountability. The universities will be forced to develop a robust governance system that makes for greater accountability and transparency. Government can make special provisions for the poor and the indigent but to think we could sustain a free university system with the current level of government funding is an illusion.

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