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It is not a news anymore that all the government owned institutions in Kogi state are currently on strike for almost two months now.
The recurring nature of strike in Kogi state is unprecedented and alarming, Let’s take kogi state university where strike is now a biannual festival as a case study, imagine kogi state university going on strike twice in a single academic session, kogi state university students are yet to resume for first semester where their counterparts elsewhere are currently rounding up their first semester examination, Even the newly admitted students are yet to resume and another JAMB is out.
My utmost disappointment and vexation is not only on the uncaring government and the ever striking lecturers alone but also to the teeming elites in the state who left the students alone to carry their cross.
In a state where we have so many educated fellows, lawyers, media activist, traditional rulers and politicians who know the effect of this recurring actions on the future of these youths, but to my dismay everybody is mute, nobody is advocating apart from the students themselves. I think meaningful resolution can easily be reached if a neutral body mediate between the government and ASUU. Also, if these elites as well express their dissatisfaction towards these issues and at least stand with the students.
It is glaring now that they care for us not, we are always left alone to carry our cross, no one cares, its only when election is approaching that you will start seeing them,
It is time we wise up and wake up to reality, these people don’t care about our future all what they care for only is for themselves its a known fact that the wards of most government official and lecturers alike schooled outside the state.
It is glaring that Uncertainty and doom lies ahead a state who have no iota of regard for education, where academic disruption is the other of the day and no one cares about the future except the student and their helpless parents.
Like the issue of strike is not enough it takes like forever to even collate result in these institutions, in a state where you will use six years for a four years program and also be mandated to wait a year for a year for collation of result and plus one year for NYSC, the situation is seriously disheartening.
Considering the effect of time as a major constraint to Nigerian graduate in the labor market, where you have to be of the age range 22-26 before you can secure a meaningful employment.
I know most of us will surely graduate but we cannot sit down and watch this abnormality to continue.
The development of kogi state is our responsibility all, and we can sit and watch reckless individuals ruin our future, afterwards we are at the receiving end of the while saga.
I salute the courage of Comrade Omepa and his team for the planned confrontation schedule for 1st of April 2017, may God see us through it.
Its time we stand and fight for our right..
#IstandwithOmepa.
1st of April is the date and lokoja is the venue.
#Reopenksu
By Sheriffdeen Toluwase Lamidu
General Secretary, NAOS (KSU chapter)
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