Nigerian singer, Simi is worried about the ongoing nationwide Academic Staff Union of Universities( ASUU) strike. She took to social media to voice her concerns.
ASUU, which is the umbrella academic body of Nigerian public universities has been on strike for close nine months now with meetings to resolve it with the Nigerian government proving abortive.
As a result, several Nigerian students attending universities under the academic body have had extra years to finish their course of study due to the incessant strikes.
The ‘Duduke‘ singer in her rant labelled the government insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. According to the singer, Nigerian leaders “don’t have compassion on their own people.” She added that the government takes away the dreams and hopes of the youths with some students having to spend eight years for courses that should take four years.
She shared:
“Higher institutions on strike for months almost, if not every, year. The odds are always stacked against the average Nigerian. You spend the first half of ur life just trying to survive. To eat. To catch up. When you finally decide to settle, you don’t have enough to do even that.
“Taking away the hopes and dreams of the youth. Destroying their futures so they’re ready to settle for crumbs. Just so they can live to see the next day and fight for more crumbs. Because they’re not your own children, their futures don’t matter???? Shame on you!!!
“If the leaders in our own country can’t have compassion on their own people, then what can we really do? They get into power and abuse it, abuse the people they should be serving. The rest of the world laughing at the so called giant of Africa. Shame on all of you!!
“Imagine doing a 4yr course for 8 years…still no job. This modafukkin wickedness is too much.”