ASUU to parents: Keep your children at home

Asuu strike, meeting updates

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday  advised   parents  not to endanger the lives of their children and wards by sending  them to their  university campuses.

ASUU which also  told  its members not to sign attendance registers in their institutions, lashed out at the Federal Government for lack of consistency in its statements on  the ongoing strike.

The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had  at a news conference in Abuja  on Thursday,  warned that any ASUU member that failed to resume on or before Wednesday would be sacked.

Wike  also directed vice-chancellors to advertise vacancies (internal and external) in their institutions.

He  told the vice-chancellors to open attendance registers for lecturers that resumed in   their universities.

The Federal Government  then  directed the  Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to deploy policemen in all  the federal universities.

On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan, who   described the strike by the university teachers  as a “subversive action,” added that ASUU had ceased to be a trade union.

But the  Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Segun Ajiboye,  said parents should keep their children and wards at home  as no academic activity would resume until the five-month-old strike was called off.

Ajiboye added, “Don’t risk the lives of your children and wards. Keep them  at home because ASUU will not teach. Soldiers and the police deployed by the Federal Government  will not teach.    Wike can come and teach in the universities. It is a huge joke to sack lecturers. Our strike must not be in vain. Our students must see the results.

“It is funny. We thought we are in a democracy. I assure Nigerians that we know what the law says about the strike. Our job is statue backed. We are not threatened. “We do not trust the government. The record of the government is clear. This government is dishonouring agreements. Our members are resolved to pursue this to a logical conclusion.”

Source: Punch

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2 Responses to “ASUU to parents: Keep your children at home”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    Fg which one be una own ASSU ASSU ASSU uh!! Assu goodluck go use him veto power by dt time my wife go be one of d lecturers, I go become d new assu chairman way go do what fg day talk.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Which are we to do eh, fg and asuu.

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