The boy, malaria and five hundred Naira
Dr Abdullahi Sule Kano is the immediate past President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He teaches political Science at the University of Sokoto. Of course, he is on strike with all other Nigerian University tecahers.
Recently he was in Abuja for yet another consultation which has not brought the government back to the negotiating table. I caught up with him and he told me this heart rending story about a father’s inability to raise five hundred naira to treat his son of malaria.
According to him the young man had come down with malaria and his father had been unable to take him for treatment. He needed just five hundred naira to buy anti malaria drugs.
As the young man laid on his dying bed he turned to his father and asked why it was impossible for his father to buy or even borrow money to buy him the drugs. A tearful father watched his son die.
This actually reflects what problems majority of Nigerians are going through and no wonder Bok oHaram and all the other sects are having many followers!
Where is the seven point agenda?
