Group to ASUU: shelve strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been urged to end its over four-month-old strike and return to the classroom for the sake of their students.

A youth group, Comrade O. O. Daniels Foundation, made the call in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital during an event on youth sensitisation on good governance in Nigeria.

Founder of the Foundation, Comrade Okorie Onyekachi Daniels in his address urged ASUU to take into consideration the plight of the youths and their parents who he said are the ones bearing the effect of the protracted strike.

Daniels, a former president of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the Ebonyi State University (EBSU), said the union should give the Federal Government time to fulfill its part of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement.

He said, “The industrial action has affected the youths and also the parents who pay their school fees and also the entire country. We appeal to ASUU to call off the strike.

“This is the first time since the agreement that the federal government has come up with a road map and also made approvals. So ASUU should go back and start something the money already approved and give the FG sometime so that by next fiscal year adequate provisions can be made in budget to address their concerns.”

While commending the youths for being law abiding and peaceful since the strike started, Daniel also charged them to contribute positively to the development of the state and country.

 

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