Nigerians had an idea of why the FG-ASUU impasse has lingered for so long from the conduct of the education minister Adamu Adamu on Monday. For some Nigerians, that was probably their first time seeing the minister publicly display interest in the crisis bedevilling Nigeria’s education sector.
NANS national president, Comrade Sunday Asefon, had told the minister that students were the victims of the FG-ASUU crisis. He also said the ASUU strike was killing Nigeria’s education and that the government should find a lasting solution to the problem. He also pointedly told the minister that their parents could not afford to send their children to the UK as the minister did to his own children.
I guess the minister must have been piqued by the half-truths and perhaps absolute falsehood in the NANS president’s speech and felt the best thing he could do was to rubbish him. In a terse style, he referred the students back to their lecturers. “Perhaps the only point that you made that is even worthy of attention is that you said students should be involved in this and I think it’s probably a good thing.The minister then stood up and walked out of the meeting.
I have always said it and it is worth repeating. Public funding of tertiary education by the Federal Government is one of the major problems confronting the federal university system in this country. Nigeria can simply no longer afford to provide free tertiary education. People often refer to the humongous salaries of our lawmakers and use that as a justification for free tertiary education. But, the truth is there is nothing very big about Nigerian lawmakers’ salaries.
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