Striking university teachers in the Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have called on all well-meaning Nigerians to wake up and join the union in salvaging the remains of the country’s educational system.
Speaking Monday in Benin, the Zonal Coordinator, ASUU-Benin Zone, Prof Fred Esumeh, pleaded with Nigerians from all works of life to join ASUU in rescuing the dying university system.
Prof Esumeh justified the 57-day old strike, insisting that it is aimed at repositioning the universities to be globally competitive and able to produce the manpower required to jump-start the re-emergence of technological and economic power.
He pleaded: “We call on all well-meaning Nigerians, students, workers, civil society organisations to wake up and join ASUU to salvage what remains of the country by repositioning the universities to be globally competitive and able to produce the manpower required to jump-start the re-emergence as a globally technological and economic power.”
“On the 14th, ASUU, after more than a calendar year of exploring all available and legitimate means in its effort to compel.”
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Citing the refusal by the Federal Government to honour the terms of the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union on December 2020, the union had on February 14, 2022, declared a four-week roll-over nationwide strike.
ASUU subsequently rolled over the strike for another eight weeks to provide the Federal Government with more than sufficient time to comprehensively sort out the patriotic demand by the union.
Prof Esumeh accused representatives of the government of continually toying with the future of Nigerian children, students and the nation.
The unionist lamented that 57 days after the students were sent packing from the institutions, the resolution of the principal outstanding issues of the deployment of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and the signing and implementation and the 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement remained at the level of mere proposals, fruitless and empty assurances.
He added: “These are issues that could have been adequately resolved in weeks by any well-meaning and serious-minded government.”
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Wake up, salvage Nigeria’s educational system, ASUU tells Nigerians
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