ASUU Strike: Education minister undermining future of Nigerian youths.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, is taking deliberate steps to undermine the future of Nigerian youths following his insincerity and misleading facts in resolving the ongoing ASUU strike according to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Bauchi Zone.
Prof Lawan Abubakar, the Zonal Coordinator stated this during a press briefing at ASUU Secretariat, UNIJOS, said the attitude of the Minister in misleading Nigerians against the ASUU zone would no longer be condoned.
“For Adamu Adamu to lead his colleagues, the other ministers to misrepresent facts and mislead the good people of Nigeria against ASUU is rather unfortunate. It is the highest level of unpatriotic disservice a minister would do to his nation, particularly in a sector like education, which is the backbone of the development of any country.”
“If this is the way to end the ASUU strike, ASUU Bauchi Zone is taking exception to it and assuring Adamu Adamu that he is wrong; he has rather succeeded in undermining the future of Nigerian youths and Nigeria. If it would take him six months to only come up with this deceit as a solution to the strike, we have the right to ask whether he was serious with education or stage-managing it?” he asked.
The perception given by Adamu that the ASUU struggle is solely aimed at improving the welfare of its members was dismissed, stating that the struggle is aimed at improving the university system to meet up with the global standard.
Prof Abubakar explained that no drastic measure has been taken by the government to warrant any consultations that may motivate the suspension of the ongoing ASUU strike next week.
“ASUU, Bauchi Zone takes exception to this neglect and insists that public universities in Nigeria must be globally competitive with the government providing the needed funds after stopping the wastages through programs that are merely conduits for corruptly defrauding the government of its meager resources such as incessant overseas travels.”
“The Zone also rejects the insulting and ridiculous award to ASUU members nationwide in that take-it-or-leave-it manner and insists that Federal Government must sit with the union and agree through the International Labour Organization recognized collective bargaining principle.”
“We also take exception to Adamu Adamu’s charades at the State House Press Centre aimed at insulting, ridiculing, embarrassing, and humiliating the best brains in the country. No government has attempted to humiliate ASUU as this one, not even a military regime.”
He insisted that ASUU members, Bauchi Zone, have resolved to be more determined in the ASUU struggle for the betterment of the Nigerian public university system.
“ASUU, Bauchi Zone, calls on students, parents, Civil Society Organizations, and the public to continue to understand and join hands with ASUU in this struggle aimed at saving the Nigerian public university system by insisting that government has the resources and should commit such resources to adequately fund public university education.”
Prof Abubakar said that they are not unmindful of the hardship and pains the strike has inflicted on the stakeholders, including its members, and urged all to take that as a sacrifice aimed at salvaging the system from total collapse.
