By Charles Okoh
From February 14, 2022 till September, our university students have been at home; meaning that for close to eight months that critical population of the nation’s demography has been kept idle and indolent. Indolent not because they are lazy as President Muhammadu Buhari once described them, but because they have been rendered so by a government that does not care a hoot how the people feel about the effect of their misgovernance and utter indifference to the plight of the people.
Last Monday, passengers travelling from Lagos to other states
and other countries from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) were
stranded and some missed their flights as the National Association of Nigerian
Students blocked all roads leading to the airport. The students who came out in
their numbers protested over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU).
One of the protesting students puts it more succinctly when he said they want to prevent the elite from flying just so that their attention can be drawn to their plights. He believed it was a welcome development to curb the excesses of the government’s nonchalant attitude towards university education in the country.
