Thread by @drdebodun

#ASUU : The members of this union will get full pay( and some) for 9months of work not done, in the year of #covid_19 and subsequent recession.

Everybody loves to profit from our dysfunctional system. We then hypocritically look up to God to 'come heal our land'!

Other university unions are already doing press-up for their own impending strike. Their strike will be followed by strikes in the healthsector and other unions in the civil service.

Then we will blame the executive arm of the government for not growing our economy!

I understand why it's so easy for some people to give up on Nigeria. Projections into the future do not give one much to hope upon. We keep self-sabotaging any developmental strides: pls keep praying for those train services.😆

Still we must keep believing.

As much as I believe the primary responsibility for the development of any country lies with government, I also believe the followers/people/masses bear a huge responsibility towards improving governance for the benefit of everybody in the society.

It will soon be clear to all that ASUU has only secured more allowances for its members. The research output of our universities will remain, ' as you were.'

No sector can achieve those heights we dream about until there is a general improvement in our economic productivity.

No sector has adequate budgetary allocation in Nigeria: health, defence, agriculture, immigration, Efcc,police, power etc.

How about all the workers in those sectors going on strike for 9 months either consecutively or simultaneously in 2021?

Nigerian professional unions must look for better ways to make demands.

A 9-month strike is cynical , ridiculous and ultimately self-destructive. A compromise should have been reached before now.