ASUU Strike: I Have Missed My Students, I Want To Return To Classroom- Lecturer Cries Out

Having stayed away from the classroom for over four months and rendered universities students helpless and hapless in pursuing their university education, the lecturers are now agitated and eager to return to class.

It is no longer a case of only grass suffers when two elephants fight. This time, one of the embattled elephants is seriously suffering and seems to be clamouring for an immediate end to the protracted conflict.

This appears to be the position of Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, president of ASUU who spoke on the Tuesday edition of Channels TV Politics Today.

The professor lamented the inability of the federal government to stick to its promise and agreement signed with the lecturers which is currently the reason for the lingering crisis.

Speaking on the damage the strike action had done to the students, Professor Osodeke explained that it is not only the students that are affected, even the lecturers are not finding the situation funny.

According to him, many of them have missed the four walls of their universities and they can’t wait to return to class. 

Specifically, he noted that he has seriously missed his students and he is eager and anxious to return to the classroom. 

The university professor disclosed that lecturers are not always happy whenever they shut down schools as a way of protesting their disagreement with the federal government but that is the only way they can register their displeasure to the government.

He noted that he hates staying away from the classroom because lecturing is a continuous exercise. With the current situation, many lecturers will have to struggle for many weeks before they can fully fit back into the system by the time they resume back to classroom.