Strike: ASUU Urges National Assembly to Block Govt Leakages

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged the National Assembly to go beyond begging the union to call off its current strike and block leakages in government expenditure to ensure provision of needed infrastructure.

ASUU also criticised the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Professor Sola Adeyeye for over his comments on why a professor should demand payment to supervise postgraduate students.

A release signed by the ASUU chairman at the University of Ibadan, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, said Professor Adeyeye was ignorant of the current situation in the universities.

Ajiboye also dismissed comments by Senate President, David Mark, that ASUU would lose public sympathy if it does not call off the strike, saying the Senate has already lost its credibility among Nigerians over its bogus allowances and perpetual anti-masses stance as opposed to the progressives in the House of Representatives.

The release said: “We are fighting a just cause. Can the Senate members wait for four years of their tenure before their allowances are paid? Can the Senate members seat in the chambers without air conditioners? What role has the Senate played to increase budgetary allocation to education? It is even funny for the Senate President to feign ignorance of the ASUU agreement as the sitting Senate President in 2009.”

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