ASUU REPLIES JONATHAN: YOUR BEGGING WON'T END THIS STRIKE

The Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, has turned down President Goodluck
Jonathans plea for the lecturers to end their
strike of over 110 days old.
ASUU does not need any plea from Mr
President, we are not asking for impossible
things. The Government reached an agreement
with us and
we are asking them to honour it. It is so
simple.
Our country has the resources to honour the
agreement but education is not given priority.
The Minister of Aviation (Mrs Stella Oduah) just
got two bulletproof cars bought for N255m by
an agency under her supervision . So, who do
you
want to tell that this country does not have the
resources?
Government should be honourable. Is it
honourable not to honour an agreement?
Certainly no. The Federal Government should
not allow the public universities to continue to
degenerate. Posterity will not forgive us if we
allow public universities to totally collapse.
We wont allow public universities to be
destroyed. That is why they are establishing
private universities all over the country with
the nations money.
Except those owned by the missionaries, tell
me which of the private universities was not
established with the nations resources?
These were the words of ASUU Chairman,
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof.
Adegbola Akinola. The ASUU chief warned that
children from poor homes might no longer
have access to university
education if the union should succumb to the
blackmail being employed against it by the
government.