The Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Peter Olapegba, has said Nigerians are partly responsible for the state of affairs in the nation, which he said was caused by the electorate voting based on sentiment rather than objective facts.
Olapegba, who is the Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, said this while delivering the 447th inaugural lecture of the institution titled, ‘That I May Know.’
He also said the country and its citizens had been victims of ‘serial rape’ by the political class since independence.
According to the professor of psychology, the consequences of the serial rape has been mindless looting which created abject poverty, massive unemployment, under-funding of education, insurgency and terrorism. Read more