LAUTECH; the misery and the mystery





*Must we lose to win?*

YES! The question sounds rhetoric and paradoxical but in actual sense it is comprehensive enough to those who have the listening mind.
Just today,on my phone I found the news of students been shot at in LAUTECH for protesting against the ongoing strike in the school two campuses of Osun and Oyo states due to the failure of both states government to pay salary and allowances to the staffs . And honestly, no one is talking about it or rather no one is taking it so seriously as it should be.
I have taken keen interest in reading about the education history in Nigeria and I see it losing value as each day passes. We cannot have two successful session in any of our institutions without having one issue or the other leading to the closure of our academic classes.
The lackadaisical attitude of the government towards our education has never been taken so seriously right from the very day we got independent.As against this,there was the creation of Nigerian Association of University Teachers in 1965 but the association couldn't achieve its aim from the strong headed military government and consequently led to the creation of ASUU in 1978.
Prior to the creation of ASUU, it fought for the success of our education by embarking on strike in 1988,but the military government rather than taking satisfactory action,it ordered for the closure of all varsities in the country with all its(ASUU) properties seized till 1990 after it has shattered the learning spirits of the then students leaving so many as dropouts.
As if this wasn't of any relevance to the government, it took no or meaningless action towards ensuring survival of our education, which saw to another ASUU strike at two different times two years after in 1992 until an agreement was reached between the Federal Govt and ASUU. Two years later in 1994, ASUU embarked on another strike because the federal government couldn't fulfil its side of the agreement in 1992 and two years a later again in 1996 there was another strike against the suspension of many lecturers under Sanni Abacha with no apparent reason whatsoever.
If we say the military rulers couldn't have done better job in our education system, but how well has the knowledgeable civilian government helped the situation?
Should the military rulers take the blame for the *five months* strike of 1999, then who is responsible for that *three months* strike in 2001 which led to the FGN-ASUU agreement in that year?
But rather than fulfilling the promises made to ASUU in 2001, the federal government dropped the filed agreement to the dustbin. And as a result there were further strike actions in the following years;
2002- two weeks
2003- six months (ended in 2004)
2005- three days
2006- one week
2007- three months
2008- one week
2009- four months
2010- five months and a week
2011- three months(ended in 2012)
2013- five months, fifteen days
2016- one week
Looking critically above, strike occurred almost every year since 1988 that begin to wonder if the federal hasn't added STRIKE to our school curricular. In the course of all these strikes, many lives were lost at protest.We lost a former ASUU President in 2013 on his way to the meeting held between ASUU and FGN in that year.
I saw with my eyes what happened in FUNAAB on August 18th,2016 ...How students were being attacked by the policemen to the point of shooting tear gas into the eye of *Taiwo Abisoye.*
We are all aware of how the police attacked MAPOLY students leading to the brutalisation of *Taiwo Peter* and many more..
We've heard of cases of students who died on our campuses as a result of poor infrastructural facilities- Unilagites,UITEs and Funaabites can still recollect the names of students whose lives were lost as a result of poor medical facility, insecurity and so many more.
I wouldn't make mention of closure of public primary and secondary schools in Nigeria on the basis of irregular payment of salary to teachers.We all know for how long primary and secondary schools were closed down in Oyo,Osun,Ogun,Imo,Nassarawa all in this year.Strike threat in Benue,Plateau, Katsina because of unpaid salary of teachers for many months. Is this the proposal of the Millennium Developmental Goals?
It has become a norm to our government to taste the blood of our fellow students before paying attention to our grievances to give us temporary not permanent solution to the issue that matters to us.
*How many more shall they kill just to give us education?*

*We want standard education*

*#Act_To_Save_Nigeria*
  Pray for our *education*
Pray for *LAUTECH*

*Soneye Abdul-Azeez Lekan* writes from *Tasued*
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