ASUU: Parable of the barking dog May 5, 2020 Facebook T witter Pinterest LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Samuel Ogunnaike SIR: It will be both unfair and unreasonable to expect a dog not to bark, considering that to be its innate inclination, which it does for many reasons. Sometimes however, the barking of the dog is considered excessive, overwhelming, disruptive and even debilitating. Is ASUU, the barking dog tiring us out with its incorrigible compulsive barking or its owner is just deliberately being inhumane to it by inciting it to bark for fun? ASUU, the umbrella of the university teaching staff in Nigeria, is not a rabid or demented dog, thus, when it barks, it is telling you something. It appears that since the conception of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, it has barely rested from its successive owners. Barely 10 years after its establishment, it was proscribed by the government on grounds of seeking autonomy and fair wages. No sooner was it allowed to resu...
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