Adefioye Iyunade
Nigerians have reacted to the allegations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that the Federal Government deliberately plans to destroy education in Nigeria.
The National Chairman of ASUU, Professor Biodun Oyeyemi, made the remark at a meeting with stakeholders in the education sector in Ilorin, Kwara State.
According to him, the plans of the Federal Government was to make education inaccessible to the poor which had already started manifesting with the increasing involvement of several average Nigerian youths in cybercrimes, rituals, kidnapping and banditry among others while the rich celebrate the graduation of their children in overseas on social media.
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However, Nigerians on Twitter reacted to the union with some of them accusing the union of complicity in the current education situation in Nigeria.
A Twitter user @OzigiAliyu tweeted: I beg you ASUU. Kindly shield your sword so that people who can’t afford international education will afford what they can. You locking the students at home is being part of the problem.
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@iam_shaga accused the union of complicity: “Both you and Government are partners in crime, you’re playing with destinies of children of the masses while at the same time collecting salaries.
@chris_owhe accused the union of hypocrisy tweeting: “Even the so-called asuu children are also in private universities.”
@ehijadeno disagrees with ASUU: “See what ASUU is saying. FG wants to kill education in Nigeria or FG has killed education in Nigeria…”
@johnobor6 questioned the activities of the union: “With the little funding in place what is ASUU doing. Her members are terrorising students selling handouts under duress, basically doing everything in most instances to make the university experience a nightmare for the majority of students. ASUU and the government are the same for me.”
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