It's high time things like this starts
happening. Questions asked and answers
demanded. A 71 years old man has sued
the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) over the ongoing non-stop strike in
Nigeria.
According to Information Nigeria,
Mallam Dankano Garba Ahmed, a 71-year-
old pensioner from Kano State, in a suit
submitted to the National Industrial Court
of Nigeria laments that the ongoing strike
is negatively affecting his daughter’s
education.
The elderly man accused the union of
frustrating his efforts to get his daughter,
Zainab Garba Ahmed, a 400 level Civil
Engineering student at the Bayero
University, Kano, out of school within the
determined time. He said that the strike
irritates him, as he earns less than N30,000
as pension and furthermore, has other
children he would wish to support
financially; this, he stated, depends on
whether his daughter graduates
successfully.
He added that the strike is making his
daughter, who is the second plaintiff, idle,
disorganised and psychologically
disturbed. "Her future and that of thousand
others across the country are being
stagnated strategically by the ongoing
strike," he decried.
The court is asked to determine if the 21
October 2009 agreement, concluded
between ASUU and the Federal
Government, is valid and not illegal. If
found otherwise, the pensioner asks the
court to define whether ASUU has a right
to commence strike for failure or refusal of
the Federal Government to implement the
said agreement.
He seeks perpetual injunction restraining
ASUU from continuing with the strike or
taking any action whatsoever and by
whatever means to enforce the said
agreement or compel the Federal
Government to implement it.
The case comes up today, September 18,
2013, at the Kano division of National
Industrial Court.
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