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A PEOPLE WITHOUT SHAME

I watched with horror yesterday as a group of women protested against ASUU in Abuja! Their leader came out with condemning words about: One, unmentioned things about what ASUU does with their year-one daughters Two, how state universities lecturers want to earn the same pay as federal universities lecturers. And like the FG she says, "That's impossible!" Three, they gave a two-week ultimatum that if the strike isn't called off they will chase out lecturers and replace them with jobless Nigerians. Having seen this show of shame on national TV, I wept. I wept, not for Nigeria (a venture I've long given up on) but because of people who for want of shame, have forgotten who their oppressors really are. This show of shame is so one-sided that one doesn't need a soothsayer to know who paid the piper! A show of shame that is against everything good thing that denotes African womanhood. Let's look at their comments one by one. One, lecturers