By Marwan Gambo
Dear Sir,
Allow me a space in your widely read news medium, Sky Daily, to express my feeling towards the Honourable Commissioner of Education, Taraba state, on the unending fiasco between the state government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which forced the latter to embark on an indefinite strike.
Education is the bedrock on which a nation stands, on which a nation builds a solid foundation, and on which we mould the nation in the wheel of sustainable development.
Sir, you may recall that Taraba State University embarked on indefinite strike on 4th March, 2019 for the alleged inability of the state government to honour it’s part of the agreement earlier reach by both parties. It may interest you to know that most of us students of the state owned university, our parents are unemployed, some are hawkers, while others are earning a paltry amount as their take home salary. This strike does nothing other than adding more economic pressures on our already burdened parents and sponsors.
It’s been about two months now when ASUU, Taraba State university branch embarks on indefinite internal strike and since then nothing positive comes out from the state government. Instead, students are left in confusion with some taking to crimes for solace.
Sir, the slogan of this administration under Governor Arch. Darius Dickson Ishaku is ”Rescue Mission” or “Give me peace and I will give you Development”. I was left wondering whether that is the type of development this government promised to give Tarabans?
I urge the state government to do the needful as a matter of urgency to end up this lingering strike, we are pissed and tired of this tyranny.
Most of us came from the adjoining towns and villages and our tenancy validity are due for expiration in the State capital. At the risk of being evicted for failure to effect fresh tenancy agreement, we are left stagnated with untold emotional hardships.
I want to use this medium on behalf of Taraba State students, I am appealing to the Honourable Commissioner, Taraba state Ministry of Education, whose responsibility for our well being in education is under his custody to please keep the Governor abreast on the negative impacts of this avoidable strike have on our socioeconomic wellbeing.
Marwan Gambo, a concerned student, wrote in from Jalingo.
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