Zonal Coordinator Adelaja Odukoya stated that Nigeria was on the brink of collapse during a press conference on Tuesday that the Lagos State Zone of ASUU hosted at the University of Lagos.
ASUU has often used protracted strike activities over the years to put pressure on the FG to carry out its many demands for the betterment of the university system and its faculty.
Regretfully, the administration has made various promises to the union that are frequently unfulfilled.
Renegotiation of the FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement, non-release of withheld salaries and arrears of Earned Academic Allowances, insufficient funding of universities, proliferation of universities, and misleading Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System were among the unfulfilled promises the government made to ASUU.
“We decided to give the government just two months to implement all of our demands, or else our union will raise powerfully in defence of the Nigerian public universities,” he declared at the conclusion of the most recent NEC meeting, which was held on May 11 and 12, at Obafemi Awolowo University. The kind of people in charge of Nigeria’s political and administrative domains are pulling the country into collapse, and all of its components are suffering as a result.
“It should go without saying that grasshoppers who want to destroy our country and whose only goal is the cavalier accumulation of illegal wealth” will not get even a square inch of territory from our magnificent and patriotic unity.
According to Odukoya, ASUU would not stand by and let politicians who put their own interests ahead of Nigeria’s progress damage the country’s public universities.
The goal is to turn the nation into a technology consumer as opposed to a major participant in the information and technology sector. ASUU calls on all well-meaning Nigerians to join us in our fight for more funding for schools and universities as a means of assisting in our people’s emancipation. We reject this in its totality.
Odukoya clarified that the reason the renegotiated 2009 Agreement was still in draft form was because the administration refused to sign it or ask for a review if there were any flaws.
Former ASUU-UNILAG chairman Dele Ashiru continued, saying, “The NEC will convey to take further actions in two months if all of these outstanding issues are not implemented.” Our purpose is to bring the government’s attention to the outstanding concerns between our union and the government, as well as to inform the Nigerian people about the government’s lacklustre reaction.
“We made it clear to the Nigerian people that Bola Tinubu would be held fully accountable in the event that there was a crisis in the university system. A year is more than enough to start fixing the issues with the APC-led Buhari administration.
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