Singer Simi has lamented the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which has kept the higher institutions in the country closed and students at home for months.

Slamming the Nigerian leaders over the issue, Simi said that they don’t care about the future of other people’s children.

According to the singer, the situation has turned Nigeria into a laughing stock before the rest of the world.

Simi wrote on Twitter: “Higher institutions on strike for months almost, if not every, year. The odds are always stacked against the average Nigerian. You spend the first half of ur life just trying to survive. To eat. To catch up. When you finally decide to settle, you don’t have enough to do even that

“Taking away the hopes and dreams of the youth. Destroying their futures so they’re ready to settle for crumbs. Just so they can live to see the next day and fight for more crumbs. Because they’re not your own children, their futures don’t matter???? Shame on you!!!

“If the leaders in our own country can’t have compassion on their own people, then what can we really do? They get into power and abuse it, abuse the people they should be serving. The rest of the world laughing at the so-called giant of Africa. Shame on all of you!!”

Higher institutions on strike for months almost, if not every, year. The odds are always stacked against the average Nigerian. You spend the first half of ur life just trying to survive. To eat. To catch up. When you finally decide to settle, you don’t have enough to do even that

— Simi (@SympLySimi) November 18, 2020