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 and their year-one daughters! What about politicians
and their aristo daughters, would-be employers and their job-seeking
wards, not forgetting okada men as well as Yerima and their under-aged
daughters.
Two, so federal lecturers are now more equal than state lecturers?
Three, so who is responsible for the jobless Nigerians that they will
replace lecturers with? Lecturers or politicians?
And then, no comment why a respectable government cannot implement an
agreement it made with its people.
No comment about the amount of money politicians lift from our
national coffers on a daily basis.
I say we are a people without shame because of the following:
One, we always see things from biased rather than from broad
perspectives. For instance, GEJ says ASUU has politicised the strike.
Hmmm! With all due respect, sir, you should examine your advisers
again. Come to think of it, sir, aren't you scandalised like most of
us that your beloved wife was collecting an honorary doctorate degree
from a South Korean university on the 100+ days anniversary of the
closure of Nigerian universities under your watch?
Another example, the Aviation Minister should be sacked because of
plane crashes, as if our worst plane disasters happened under her
watch. We turn a blind eye to the little improvements airports in
Nigeria have seen under her.
Two, we can do or say anything for money. Like these Abuja market
women and their show of national ignorance, most Nigerians can sell
themselves once the pay is right. You can hardly get a sizeable
population who can withstand monetary inducement, I once saw NANS
president on TV, challenging his teachers and threatening fire and
brimstone if the strike isn't called off. Such never aspire to become
lecturers because they will eventually become politicians to continue
the rot.
Three, we are where we are because we have shamelessly allowed these
politicians to divide us with religion and tribalism. I am one core
believer in the notion that the class segregation in this country is
that of the rich/politicians and the poor; not between Muslims and
Christians or northerners and southerners. Those who are condemning
GEJ and those who have missed out on the sharing formula because in
his team you find northerners and southerners, Muslims and Christians.
By 2015, once another thieving formula is drafted, the show can go on.
In other climes, oppressed people would have arisen and these
over-bloated cowards would have left us for good.
Finally, it is a shameless people that wait on God to come do for them
what they can do for themselves!
I say it, ASUU may have its faults but the way it is presently going
is what every oppressed Nigerian needs to learn. I have recorded
personal losses due to this strike, but I am still not deterred. This
strike isn't about GEJ or any individual but about the way this nation
is being run into the ground owing to government insincerity and lack
of credibility.
And please, somebody should tell those women that most of those
politicians do not even qualify to teach any class in any university,
local, state or federal.
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 and their year-one daughters! What about politicians
and their aristo daughters, would-be employers and their job-seeking
wards, not forgetting okada men as well as Yerima and their under-aged
daughters.
Two, so federal lecturers are now more equal than state lecturers?
Three, so who is responsible for the jobless Nigerians that they will
replace lecturers with? Lecturers or politicians?
And then, no comment why a respectable government cannot implement an
agreement it made with its people.
No comment about the amount of money politicians lift from our
national coffers on a daily basis.
I say we are a people without shame because of the following:
One, we always see things from biased rather than from broad
perspectives. For instance, GEJ says ASUU has politicised the strike.
Hmmm! With all due respect, sir, you should examine your advisers
again. Come to think of it, sir, aren't you scandalised like most of
us that your beloved wife was collecting an honorary doctorate degree
from a South Korean university on the 100+ days anniversary of the
closure of Nigerian universities under your watch?
Another example, the Aviation Minister should be sacked because of
plane crashes, as if our worst plane disasters happened under her
watch. We turn a blind eye to the little improvements airports in
Nigeria have seen under her.
Two, we can do or say anything for money. Like these Abuja market
women and their show of national ignorance, most Nigerians can sell
themselves once the pay is right. You can hardly get a sizeable
population who can withstand monetary inducement, I once saw NANS
president on TV, challenging his teachers and threatening fire and
brimstone if the strike isn't called off. Such never aspire to become
lecturers because they will eventually become politicians to continue
the rot.
Three, we are where we are because we have shamelessly allowed these
politicians to divide us with religion and tribalism. I am one core
believer in the notion that the class segregation in this country is
that of the rich/politicians and the poor; not between Muslims and
Christians or northerners and southerners. Those who are condemning
GEJ and those who have missed out on the sharing formula because in
his team you find northerners and southerners, Muslims and Christians.
By 2015, once another thieving formula is drafted, the show can go on.
In other climes, oppressed people would have arisen and these
over-bloated cowards would have left us for good.
Finally, it is a shameless people that wait on God to come do for them
what they can do for themselves!
I say it, ASUU may have its faults but the way it is presently going
is what every oppressed Nigerian needs to learn. I have recorded
personal losses due to this strike, but I am still not deterred. This
strike isn't about GEJ or any individual but about the way this nation
is being run into the ground owing to government insincerity and lack
of credibility.
And please, somebody should tell those women that most of those
politicians do not even qualify to teach any class in any university,
local, state or federal.
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