Strike: ASUU Sympathises With Varsity Students

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has sympathised with university students over the union’s prolonged strike.

Gatekeepers News reports that ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke while sympathising with University students said the students were suffering for Nigeria’s future and education system.

Osodeke made this known while reacting to the N34 billion released by the Federal Government for payment of minimum wage consequential adjustment.

On February 14, the University teachers embarked on strike over an improved welfare package, better working conditions, and the implementation of various labour agreements signed with the federal government between 2009 and 2020.

The ASUU President during an interview with NAN said the students were suffering for Nigeria’s future and education system.

He said the students were not being punished but paying the price to ensure that Nigeria had a good education system.

“ASUU sympathises with them, and we believe that with what is going on if we continue with the struggle, we will have an education system where Nigerian students will have the same lecture rooms with their foreign counterparts,” Osodeke said.

He stressed that there was no need to call off the strike when the federal government had not attended to their demands.

Osodeke, therefore, called on the federal government to do the needful as the N34 billion released was not part of their demands.

On Tuesday, the federal government released N34 billion for the payment of consequential adjustment for minimum wage of workers in the education system.