From the 1999 to present day there has been up rise in harmonious relationships between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Academic Staff Union of Universities. According to some sources and unfortunately, getting to 4 years (almost 5 sessions) was wasted within the last 22 years. So sad indeed as the situation is today very much caved-in courtesy of the FGN and often complicated by her agents (some of which are religious scholars and academics) and the public. The FG, her agents and the public should know that to varying degree their actions are undermining education in Nigeria. ASUU is only wallowing to survive and resuscitate the system.
The FG and her unrelenting pursuit of abstraction of common pool resources (supported by vested self-interest minds and the terms and conditions of the Bretton Woods lenders – IMF and World Bank) often with no consideration of public opinions
is the main problem of Nigeria today. As for Public Universities in Nigeria, the present action of the FG is perhaps the most brutal to the System and one in many attempts by pro-gamers to privatise such as institutions to service external debt that tripled past governments’ figures under this administration ($39.69 billion as of March, 2022 well above Egypt’s $157.8 billion within same period). This administration that has been known as ASUU’s friend – the President, his VP, Chief of Staff, Minister of Education as well as ES NUC are all associated at one time with the Union. It is only now that we understand that their ultimate aim was merely to cling to the top and serve the Supreme Being of Man who according to Ali Mazrui is ‘Man’. In order to support Mazrui, Adamu Adamu came out and told Nigerians that 80% of the demands by ASUU are met but all will be captured in 2023 budget. For goodness sake, which sane people who know how this government operates by scam and Yahoo boys tactics will accept such a ‘offer curve’?.
Similar to their masters, the agents of FG such as Professor Maqari and one Paiko from IBBU Lapai are mostly parasitic-opportunists with blurred lenses. Having gone through Maqari’s academic resume, I found more questions difficult to answer but by him. While there are still issues to puzzle out, I got an early hint that he is a leapfrogger, a parasite and an opportunist. First, he spent his 21 years hopping from ABU Zaria to Jama’atu Institute of Advanced Studies, Zaria to FCE Zaria to Nigeria Arabic Village to KASU and later BUK (where he became a Professor). This is typical leapfrogging hence he can only publish 20 articles in grey journals. A casual search of JSTOR, Scopus, Arabic Collections Online (ACO), Index Islamicus, Qatar Digital Library, Bibliography of Asian Studies as well as Researchgate and Google Scholar speaks differently. *Tunaninka kamanninka* so said in Hausa.
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Maqari ought to be very patriotic by staying one more decade in this excruciating environment doing quality job in order to justify his assertions. Like a parasite he jumped out immediately after Professor when he is needed most in the system. With 20 years sojourn amidst hopping on, Maqari’s false assertion like others’ is mere tales by moon light. Take – it – or – leave!. Anyway, we must also recognise that he is protected by the constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. Religious man like you should please sue for peace Maqari.
As for Paiko, its either he’s provoked by the frustrations in the system or wanting to trail the likes of good researcher Maqari. Let him know that a loner is like a low hanging fruit. Paiko please go for ASUSU. You’ll be tamed in ASUSU (money bank in Hausa) like a coin.
With the dominance of bandwagon effect, the public were made to understand that the struggle is all about personal benefits. All the three well educated people I met in two days were condemning ASUU in my face. That ASUU is unpatriotic and aiding and abating to kill the system. That according to Adamu Adamu about 80% of our demands were met yet we remain adamant. I share with them the video cliff which Adamu bluffed and ask them to watch with open mind. We met later and all stated that Adamu instead of ASUU got the wires crossed. And I said can’t you see that he couldn’t make head or tail of this situation after six months and after three weeks of ultimatum?. This is how the public should judge a book not by its covers. The public should be aware that by joining Adamu and others to serve the new Supreme being an end to public education in nearer.
My ASUU colleagues “success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts…..”. Strong men always say “a bend in the road is not the end of the road”.
Nuraddeen Danjuma
Bayero University Kano
4/9/2022
188/3/2022 (IPPIS-APC CALENDAR)
