I have been thinking and reflecting on ASUU's predicament as a trade union. The union has been on strike for months now and no salaries coming for the research done, community services rendered and other things done for the country like this agitation for a new vista.
My time for reflection is often when I walk in the morning. I have been asking myself: "What is the next thing to do?" The day after the meeting where academic staff insisted the strike must continue until the #FGN responds responsibly, I was walking along a deserted road and it was as if my colleagues were not eager to hit the road to somewhere very early. As I was counting my steps to fitness absentmindedly, I saw a boy who was standing by the roadside enjoying the fresh unpolluted air. Our eyes met and I wondered why he was up so early missing the comfort of his bed. I took a look at his T-shirt and, with my reading glass, I read what was inscribed on the shirt. I memorized it because it was loaded with meaning. As I walked I thought about it. Is this another golden-tongued wisdom? Life has many ways of bringing an answer when there is a question. The inscription was: "The hardest choices are made by those with the strongest will". I remembered another aphorism: "Where there is a will, there is way". Does it mean that ASUU has no other choice, but to continue on strike with the will of a determined union? We have put on our thinking caps to solve our problems collectively.
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