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President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government under him have been accused by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of treating its members like slaves.
The union claims that it only listens to and implements what it considers to be negative policy proposals from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank that are detrimental to Nigerians’ overall interests.
Poorly planned and implemented policies in the education sector, according to the report, have led to the government treating lecturers as slaves.
ASUU has threatened to combat the slave traders and free the nation’s lecturers by pushing for improved working and studying circumstances for students, including higher pay and allowances.
The union’s chairman at the University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Ayo Akinwole, announced this in a statement yesterday in Ibadan while reacting to an allegation by Education Minister Adamu Adamu that he was working on how to resolve the lingering issues between ASUU and the government when he heard that the union had declared a strike strikeout.
Akinwole claimed that the Federal Government and those in charge of the education ministry have shown absolute incompetence and indifference to problems that concern Nigerians.
Any Nigerian who claims ignorance of the union’s sequence of warnings issued in the previous month before deciding to go on the present one-month warning strike, according to the ASUU head, is lying.
Many ASUU members had died as a result of the stress caused by the government’s refusal to hire more university staff, he claimed, while others had simply departed the nation for brighter pastures.
Akinwole said: “The Federal Government lacks integrity. It is sad. The government cannot be trusted any longer. We have been on the same salary for 13 years, and it is even shameful to show anyone your payslip compared to the work we do, we have sacrificed for Nigeria to the detriment of our wellbeing. This is already dampening the morale of our people.
“The Federal Government should sign the renegotiated agreement, implement it, roll out UTAS, settle unpaid earned academic allowances, and commit more funds into the revitalisation of universities.”
The ASUU chairman urged parents to “impress it on the government to sign the new welfare package for our members,” adding: “If we fail to fight for our rights, the slave merchants in government will continue to trade with our future and the future of the children of the masses.”
Fatimah Oyesanmi
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