Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has taken to social media to lambast Nigerian leaders over the neglect of tertiary education in the country.
Public university lecturers’ union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, has been on strike for five months and the schools shut down as negotiations with the federal government over financial matters remain fruitless.
In a post on his Instagram account today, the Turkey-based Musa suggested that Nigerian politicians should ordinarily feel ashamed that their own children are schooling abroad while children of other Nigerians are held back and left idle.
“To our political office holders whose children school abroad, how do you feel visiting your children abroad taking pictures in their schools and posting online while ASUU is on strike?” the most capped Nigeria international of all time with 107 appearances wrote today.
Public universities and other higher institutions, which children of regular Nigerians attend, have been plagued by strikes for the last three decades, while children of the political class attend expensive private institutions locally or travel abroad for uninterrupted schooling.
An obviously angry Musa added: “Like seriously, how is it OK to you? You’re running a system that you don’t even believe in. Show me one Oyibo (Caucasian) leader whose child is schooling in Nigeria.
“E no dey touch una? And when you return, Nigerian youths will still gather and sing praises for una.”
Musa made the post hours after Oyo State governor Seyi Makinde and his Abia State counterpart Okezie Ikpeazu were seen in photographs attending the convocation ceremony of Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike’s son in London.
ASUU began the current industrial action on February 14 to demand for improved welfare packages, better working conditions, and the implementation of various labour agreements signed with the Federal Government.
The usual duration for most courses of study in Nigerian universities is four years, but most students have had that stretched to five or even six years due to incessant strikes by lecturers.
