{"id":55383,"date":"2021-12-15T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=55383"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:22:33","slug":"asuu-strike-looms-as-union-accuses-govt-of-attempting-to-kill-public-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/asuu-strike-looms-as-union-accuses-govt-of-attempting-to-kill-public-universities","title":{"rendered":"ASUU strike looms as union accuses govt of attempting to kill public universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The protracted disagreement between the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been linked to government\u2019s decision to take issues concerning education for granted.<\/p>\n

This is as ASUU has accused the Buhari-led Federal Government of refusing to pay the much needed attention to the education sector.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST recalls that there has been a lingering disagreement between the Federal Government and ASUU over the former\u2019s inability to fulfill the 2009 agreement reached with the union.<\/p>\n

The disagreement had led to the commencement of a nationwide strike in March 2020 which lasted for nine months.<\/p>\n

In the agreement, ASUU had demanded that its members should be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) pending the approval of the proposed payment system \u2013 the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).<\/p>\n

But the union reopened the public universities on December 3, following the Federal Government\u2019s promise to meet their demands.<\/p>\n

However, Dr Ajigo Ikutal, ASUU Secretary at the University of Calabar, UNICAL, said the Federal Government has chosen not to have the willpower to meet the union\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

Speaking with DAILY POST, Ikutal accused elites in the Federal Government of killing both primary, secondary schools, and now attempting to kill the public university system in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Ikutal assured Nigerians that ASUU dislikes industrial actions, but only opts for it to better the University system.<\/p>\n

According to Ikutal: \u201cIt\u2019s very simple; government has not placed the desired priorities on education. If it\u2019s on another sub-head, will government be asked before meeting their demands?<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment has never placed that desired priority on education so they can joke with the sector anyhow and it doesn\u2019t matter to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you check the budget, what is the percentage set aside for education? It keeps decreasing, and of course, the amount given, do they really implement it?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer to this questions is very simple and if we say we don\u2019t know the answer then we are merely pretending.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe elites in government do not have their children schooling in the country. They have killed the primary, secondary education and brought up private institutions so that they would thrive. They want to kill the public universities, and we said no because the common man will not go to school if that happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, it\u2019s okay, we are watching, and we are standing our grounds that public universities must thrive in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

On ASUU going on strike, \u201cI can\u2019t say yes or no, and the reason is that if government wants to solve ASUU\u2019s problem today, it will.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do not have the will power; because if the will is there; they would solve ASUU\u2019s problem today, so there will be no need for strike. Do you think we like strike? We don\u2019t like going on strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

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