The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) leadership claims that if the federal government is willing to take the necessary action, the union’s ongoing strike may be put an end in less than two days.
This was said on Tuesday by Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of ASUU, who maintained that the government’s failure to sign the agreement between the two parties is what has caused the strike to last so long.
He claimed that all of the parties concerned can sign the deal once the government commits to it and the negotiations are ended.
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Osodeke continued by asserting that the strike has persisted because the children of politicians, government officials, and other influential people in the nation do not attend public colleges since they all attend school abroad.
In addition, he claimed that if the government takes the necessary action, the ASUU strike can be ended in two days during an interview appearance on Channels TV.
Prof. Osodeke said that two weeks is too long for an emergency to be resolved to President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to Minister of Education Adamu Adamu to resolve the ASUU crisis within two weeks.
He claimed that although the government is raising funds and spending on other matters—even those that are viewed as frivolous—because they are unaffected by the ongoing ASUU strike, the issue has been put on hold.
“Two weeks is too long. The issue of renegotiation has been completed by both sides, which means that one is gone. They should just come back to us and say ‘we have agreed, sign it’. That should not take two days,” he said.
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“If you have a crisis in your house, you will source for money to resolve that crisis — the way they are sourcing for money to do all kinds of things.
“We were told they spent billions to feed children in schools. Is that correct? How many children have you seen being fed. They released N200 billion for entrepreneurship programme.
“Your universities are closed for five months, you did not release N100 billion, but you released money to share in villages because election is coming. It is the priority you place on education.”
The ASUU President stressed the need for the government to revitalize the education sector in the country as the amount Nigerians spend on getting foreign education is increasing by the day and fewer foreigners are showing interest in the country’s educational system.
“Government should prioritise education as number one priority in the country, because all of us here, wherever you are, you must pass through the school. Now that you have killed it, we are wasting our money on foreign countries.
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“Last year, according to CBN, Nigerians spent N1.6 trillion as school fees to other countries. N1.6 trillion will turn around all the universities in Nigeria and bring them to standard and people will come from outside. We go outside; nobody comes in.
“For this strike, universities are shut down. Those who run the affairs of Nigeria – national assembly and executive arm – they do not have any problem. Their children are not here. If the children of all the ministers and senators are all in our public universities, this will not last two days.
“When the aviation people wanted to shut down, the national assembly called them immediately and settled them overnight because fear could not allow them pass through roads. They quickly resolved it,” he added.
Anaedeoonline.ng reports the current ASUU strike commenced on February 14, 2022.
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