The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advised
the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration to sign the 2009 agreement
the government reached with the union.
The union, on Thursday, said this is necessary to end the
ongoing strike embarked upon by the union.
University lecturers on the platform of ASUU have been on
strike for the last three months.
The union has earlier declared two months warning strike
before it commenced the indefinite strike.
It was gathered that the union, as parts of its arguments,
is urging the federal government to implement the 2009 agreements it signed
with the federal government.
It was learnt that both the union and the government
representatives had been meeting in order to resolve the matter, but the issues
remained unsolved
The union has, however, urged the Buhari-led administration
to sign the 2009 agreement so as to save the future of the country.
The union in its argument said that the attitude of the
president and his appointees to the strike since it started over two months
showed that they do not have any intentions to solve the problem.
The union alleged that the political elites were not ready
for the children of the masses to have quality education through committed
funding and signing a new decent welfare package for ASUU members.
Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Professor
Ayo Akinwole who spoke on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital insisted
that funding education remains the best way to shape the minds of youths to
constructive development.
Akinwole in a statement made available said the ruling
government ought to see that more children are getting out of school.
“ASUU started the ongoing strike on February 14, 2022, to
force the government to implement outstanding 2009 agreements on revitalization
funding, earned academic allowances, the proliferation of universities and sign
a re-negotiated agreement with the Union.
“To fight to have a country and a future for the children of
the poor from the traders of collective patrimony in government.
“If you fund education, the minds of the educated youths
will be built to resist being used for criminality but since the government has
been responsive, the funding war may become another opportunity where some
people are making millions.
“They don’t care about the increasing number of out of
school children and they are not concerned about what facilities Nigerian
children are exposed to.
“For ASUU, a smarter way of controlling growing insecurity
and redirecting the minds of Nigerian youths to constructive and developmental
activities is to build their human capacity and minds through purposeful
funding of education by federal, State and local governments in Nigeria”.
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