That CONUA and NAMDA: Why not ASUU?

I think I have said in my previous articles that, prolonging this ASUU strike would force other ASUU members to embark on opposition to the strike. I wonder why the whole segments of the noblemen and women of this association could have a deaf and dumb ear, that will not understand the point at stake. 

Surely enough, no matter the height and the echelon you may reach, the person that taught you ABCD from primary school, should have been considered above your intelligence. What is now happening between the federal government and the leadership of ASUU is somewhat unfortunate. It is so because I had never anticipated that such a so-called strike will go over 30 days without a better tactful result. How can the federal government allow such a bad scenario to extend to such a long duration of time without resolving the issues once and for all? 

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By the general provision of the International Labour Organisaion (ILO), trade unions differ from the association, hence the difference is clear. An association only plays within its constitutional provision such that the associations could hardly go on strike because of the sensitivity of their role. If you look at the constitution of ASUU, you are unlikely to get to the point where the said association could go on strike longer than necessary. ASUU is the youngest association within the context of other associations e.g. the medical, nurses and midwives. 

Make no mistake, ASUU and the medical associations are widely respected throughout the world. Medical staff comes from teachers and lecturers, so they are coming from the same womb. This, therefore, no government will dare to deal with such association wildly. The situation allowing the universities to shut up their gates for over seven months is somehow boring and there paranoid and the wrong way. 

The Ministry of Labour and Productivity that is led by Mr. Chris Ngige is going the wrong way, following the steps he sincerely embraced which demonstrates unkindness to the core. It is unrealistic for the minister to behave the way he is thinking the hard way he and his federal institution could be the better remedy to the whole thing being around the case of this strike. Having new tactics to get another two associations will not help the situation because such new associations will be considered stooges and will have no relevance with the context of other labour unions in Nigeria. 

One will hope that this longer unnecessary strike comes to an end even when the students did not take any measure that could prompt both sides to come to their thinking faculty. The lecturers will have to think more, leaving political affiliation out. The strike may be resolved amicably perhaps before the publication of this rather new stuff personality. We call both sides to reconcile because of our children roaming about the street. 

Comrade Ibrahim Abdu Zango is the chairman of the Kano Unity Forum and writes from Kano