Group to ASUU: shelve strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) has been urged to end its over four-
month-old strike and return to the classroom
for the sake of their students.
A youth group, Comrade O. O. Daniels
Foundation, made the call in Abakaliki, the
Ebonyi State capital during an event on youth
sensitisation on good governance in Nigeria.
Founder of the Foundation, Comrade Okorie
Onyekachi Daniels in his address urged ASUU
to take into consideration the plight of the
youths and their parents who he said are the
ones bearing the effect of the protracted
strike.
Daniels, a former president of the Students
Union Government (SUG) of the Ebonyi State
University (EBSU), said the union should give
the Federal Government time to fulfill its part
of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement.
He said, "The industrial action has affected the
youths and also the parents who pay their
school fees and also the entire country. We
appeal to ASUU to call off the strike.
"This is the first time since the agreement that
the federal government has come up with a
road map and also made approvals. So ASUU
should go back and start something the money
already approved and give the FG sometime so
that by next fiscal year adequate provisions
can be made in budget to address their
concerns."
While commending the youths for being law
abiding and peaceful since the strike started,
Daniel also charged them to contribute
positively to the development of the state and
country.
Source: thenation