ASUU advises FG to shut down Universities
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has advised the Federal Government to either fund universities or shut them down.
The National President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, insisted that government must implement the agreement it signed with the union in 2009.
Osodeke said these in response to the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, who during an interview with Channels Television on Thursday, stated that the Federal Government did not have the funds to meet its obligations in the agreement signed with ASUU.
Ngige said the government was considering renegotiation of the terms of the agreement with ASUU in the effort to end the ongoing strike by university lecturers.
However, the national president of ASUU, Osodeke, said anything concerning improving and investing in the universities, government would always say it had no money.
The children of the poor will suffer in Nigerian universities while their children will have good education outside the country. When they are through, they come back here and take the juicy jobs here, and keep lording it over the children of the poor. It’s a class issue. For us, the option is for them; they shut down all the universities and let all the children go and learn mechanics or they fund the universities.”
He also reacted to Ngige’s statement that the government was calling for renegotiation of the 2009 agreement it signed with ASUU.
