The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have been urged to jettison ego in addressing the issue of the alleged half salaries paid to members of the Union in October.
Professor Kayode Esuola, Senior Researcher at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies at the University of Lagos gave this advice while featuring on the TVC News Breakfast Show on Tuesday Morning.
Professor Esuola said the issue should go beyond ego to operating in synergy to resolve all issues within the University system.
He however commended the Speaker of the House of Representatives for giving life to most of the issues that have been discussed since 2009 by calling for an Education Summit.
He said this means that those within government have a full understanding of the issues at hand.
He also charged the Government to show the political will to ensure that the matter is addressed decisively and prevent another shock to the system.
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“Let me just round off very quickly what I was talking about before the line got disconnected. It is the federal government of Nigeria that should be asked why we have not been able to reach a solution. Governments should work in unison. I understand from elementary studies of government that you have in any country, the legislature, the executive, the judiciary. If the government does not understand honorable, the speaker of the House will not come out with a call for educational summit that states almost verbatim everything that has been talked about since 2009. That means there is a full understanding on the part of the government as demonstrated by the lack of headway.”
“What is lacking is the political will and perhaps, as you say, ego on the part of the federal government, forgetting that that ego is a product of the vote of the common man on the street, including these children”.
“Not the kind of ego I want to build from the firm. That’s exactly the position of government we have exhibited”.
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