ASUU STRIKE, the UNRESOLVED BATTLE

The continued Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike and the government's nonchalant attitude towards it, shows how insensitive the government is to the cries of the citizens. Since the ongoing strike started, all that is heard everyday on Nigerian dailies is the government negotiating terms with ASUU over the agreement made with the university body in 2009.

The question is, why on earth will the government still be negotiating terms with ASUU over its demands of the promise made to them in the past years?

Negotiating education is just basically negotiating the future of the country for bad. The government's deaf ears given to issues that really take nothing to resolve, justifies the force applied by some form of groups who do so, to get the governments urgent attention for a quick provision of their demands.

The Niger Deltans, after many clamours never had the government come to their aid until force was applied and they granted their heart desires, granting them amnesty. Not too long after the nation experienced calm following the incessant attacks on oil wells and the region, the sect Boko Haram emerged with a whole lot of casualties it caused the nation, which has made the government plead with the sect for peace and the readiness to provide whatever it is they need.

Why do the government create the impression that the best way to get their attention is by applying force? Could their reason for toiling with ASUU be that force is not applied by the university body? Is applying force the best way to get their attention over the situation on ground which needs a quick intervention?