The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan branch, has described the Nigerian situation as assuming a mythical dimension of failure considering the lacklustre attitude of the Federal Government to the intractable strike going on in the nation’s Universities.
The Union in a Workers’ Day celebration message to the Nation, signed by its Chairman, Prof. Ayoola Akinwole, in Ibadan, added that Nigeria was “unarguably the most terrorized nation in the world, ahead of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Nigerian workers carry on with their jobs daily at great risk, suffering additional humiliations of bearing the burden of political and financial corruption of those who are supposed to look out for the welfare of the people.
Our country is a fiefdom of competing warlords, assemblage of official certified terrorists, carnivals of jesters and bands of thieves dressed in costumes and bemusing titular inanities. “Our political elites are ravaging bandits, stealing our peace in the name of politics; disguised terrorists raiding our common patrimonies.
Our economic elites are conniving mongrels. The traditional rulers no longer serve the deities and the ancestors. They are asleep to the cries of workers and now serve at the altar of mammon. They have sold their peoples to slavery and abandoned their sacred obligations to deities. Religious rulers are now chattered prophets, prayer contractors, ministers of their own bellies and priests of violence.”
(Sunday Telegraph)
