[Vanguard] I have always had this lingering suspicion that apart from representing the deep-seated contempt that has come to define government's attitude to the welfare of public sector workers, its shoddy, often, disdainful, treatment of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and its demands for improved working conditions might have been carefully conceived as a long term project to continue provoking ASUU to embark on industrial actions until it fatally hurts its case before Nigerians.