ASUU threatens strike

Prof Emmanuel Ajisegiri
ASUU’s Ibadan Zonal Coordinator

ASUU threatens strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that it would embark on another strike if the Federal Government failed to honour its agreement with the union.

Prof Emmanuel Ajisegiri, ASUU’s Ibadan Zonal Coordinator, made this known at the union’s briefing held at the Lagos State University ASUU secretariat on Thursday.

Ajisegiri reiterated ASUU’s commitment to compel government to improve the facilities in the universities to raise education standard.
He lamented that the Federal Government had pleaded for the November 22 date when in the real sense, the first phase of the agreement which should have take three years (between 2009-2012), had almost lapsed

Imminent strike

ASUU is accusing the governments of ‘foot-gagging’ on the implementation of 2009 agreement and exhausting the union’s patience.

It urged Nigerians not to hold it responsible in the event of another strike.
According to ASUU, except something positive from Federal Government happened on or before November 22, a strike might be the answer.

The statement reads: “As ASUU, we must continue to agitate for the proper thing to be done in our universities. If we don’t get to a point where we can begin to make impact on the economy, then we are going nowhere in this country. No nation can rise beyond its level of education. Today, I can tell you categorically that there is no single institution in this country that supports post-graduate studies, not even the National University Commission (NUC). Nigeria has the best brains all over the world, but we lack the tools to work. Go to our laboratories, they are mere carcasses.  In some of our laboratories today, stoves are being used instead of the normal Bunsen Burner. Our universities are caricatures of what an ideal university should be. Now, many of our students who graduated with B.A today cannot even write application letter. That is how degenerated the system has fallen”.

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