This column is in sympathy with the university lecturers. We must have a warped sense of equity as a people to pay a Professor N533, 000 a month and pay his product he taught in the university N29 million a month, as revealed by Professor Itse Sagay.

I am also referring to the figure of Senator Shehu Sani which he said is N14 million. Even then! A former Member of the House of Representatives somehow corroborated the revelation by Professor Itse Sagay that the pay of a Rep is N21 million a month. Vice-chancellors get about N1.5 million.

Lecturers cannot maintain their vehicles. Some sleep in their offices. In some cases lecturers stand by the roadside to be picked by their colleagues, and this is alternated. To be a legislature from most parts of the country, you must have a university degree or equivalent to qualify to think of being a legislator, and the authority to issue the degree certificates are the professors. For me, that is where we should start. We must make our university lecturers feel worthy and good.

Over the years, the university activities with regards to providing solid education in our land have been disrupted too often that the children of the rich flee to the Western world or India for quality education. Lecturers themselves are fleeing in search of greener pastures. University education has become basic. Even if later you become a mechanic, you will be a better and all-rounded mechanic.

From Babangida era when lecturers were accused of teaching what they were not paid to teach and Professor Ben Nwabueze was Minister, to the time Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to Buhari, and now to Bola Tinubu, the story is the same and the posture sickening. And there has not been any rethinking.