Finally the ASUU strike is over

Honestly, even before I went to university, I have this urge to write on things I feel strongly about, but like the lazy person thatI am, I realise writing may not be my cup of tea after all. However, sometimes, I couldn't resist the urge to put my thought into writing on some of the things I feel strongly about.  Some I sent to media houses for publication and recently, with the advent of social media, I post my thoughts here

To say our Universities are in decay is to say the least. The problems are to many, ranging from infrastructural decay, underfunding, overcrowded classes and hostels as well as some lazy, unfit and ungodly lecturers. That is why many of us hold paper qualification which in all honesty we cannot defend. That was why I identified with ASUU struggle and always argue that it was we the students that ought to go on strike not the lecturers.

I think that was why to me, ASUU struggle was commendable since it was aimed at making the system a better one. Unfortunately, there seems to be a loss of confidence and lack of support to ASUU in its struggle. Rightly or wrongly, majority of students and parent view ASUU strike mainly as struggle by the lecturers to earn more pay nothing more.
ASUU lackadaisical attitude towards toward the actions and or inactions of its members reaffirm the belief among people that ASUU's struggle was not at all about rescuing our university system from collapse.
The recent strike has really changed my perception about ASUU totally. I have come to realise that all along I have been wrong in thinking that ASUU was for championing the cause of education not that of its members. I felt betrayed that I was really pool to have always argued in support of ASUU during the seven months old strike during which we stayed at home. I came to realise that all the rhetoric by ASUU that all what it was doing was to salvage the system was after all a ruse.

Many lecturers teach in more than two or three universities at the same time and some of them are even active members of ASUU. They hardly teach student half of what they ought to teach because of greediness and ASUU is doing nothing about it. They give too much of their time to private practice of their profession while at the same time being paid from the public fund for supposed teaching that they have relegated. They are busy abusing politician for illegal accumulation of wealth.
ASUU needs to sit up and do the right thing if it needs the support of the people. Let ASUU be seeing as champion of a good University system even if it means going against its member. You can't earn the confidence of the populace if you are morally bankrupt. And I am sorry to say many ASUU members are misfits.