THISDAY

ORJI KALU: AN IGBO MAN IN GERMANY

- ASUU STRIKE: SELL THE UNIVERSITI­ES

The news is all over that my lord was in Germany seemingly against his bail conditions. They say he went for medical reasons but the court thought otherwise and has revoked the bail. You see what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, the other one jumped bail to go pray in Israel while this one went to Germany to advise on Brexit while still taking care of his health. This kalu man is a handful. Did you guys watch his interview on how OBJ came into his bedroom to beg him to support his third term agitation or something like that? I laughed and almost collapsed from it. These politician­s are far better than our Nollywood actors; he talked that day o like an insider that he was. Today he has flown to Germany for whatever reasons. He should man up and come back abeg. You see why people like Aremu will be pouring spit and shouting when a whole personalit­y like that whose Internatio­nal passport should have been with the court can now pass through the same system without any problems and then citizen Aremu is now barred. Why won’t he call everybody bastard? There was a country my people.

I will never stop singing this song. This is the only solution. Privatize them and all will be well. People will be saying if they do that, the cost of tertiary education will go up. It’s not true; students are already paying exorbitant fees illegally. They are buying handouts, settling to be registered, paying not to be sexually harassed and all sorts of illegal fees just to get a useless degree. So why not privatize the damn things and free up major resources for infrastruc­tural developmen­t. The ASUU like their big cousin NLC are dragons who have been left behind by modern times. Look in better countries, there is no flat salary for lecturers, your pay is pegged on the amount of grants you attract and number of students who register for your courses. These ones will just be sitting down there with their scraggy beards and be waiting for government subvention and when that does not come they will shout strike. Mbok, let’s call their bluff, they can strike for all they want. The education system is already comatose even when they are not on strike so what is the difference? Do they even know what time is it? Please federal government should list the universiti­es on the stock exchange and sell their shares to raise enough capital to fund them. Thank you.

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