You Won’t Resume Until Govt Meet Our Demands, ASUU To Varsity Students

Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke says students are making sacrifices for coming generations

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has declared that the current strike by members of the union will linger and keep student at home until the Nigeria Government is ready to agree to their terms.

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He added that the union’s strike is preparing today’s students to make sacrifices for the coming generations to have basic amenities and have easy access to quality education.

Osodeke spoke at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife in Osun State, during the union’s congress.

The ASUU president said the current strike by members of the union will linger until the Federal Government is ready to agree to their terms.

He said: “The affected students are making sacrifices for development in the schools so that future generations can benefit. For anything to develop, some people will make sacrifices. You will agree with me that Nigerian universities are on the verge of collapsing. This struggle is not just for them but the future generations.”

Osodeke alerted the nation to exodus of Nigerian lecturers in large numbers as a result of the ongoing strike.

He said: “Large numbers of lecturers have moved out not because they hate this country but because of the way they are being treated. There’s no country in the world that their academics will go on strike and you think the best weapon to use is to seize their salary.

When we were on the strike, lecturers in the United Kingdom (UK) also went on strike. It didn’t take two days for them to resolve it.

“When Ghanaian lecturers went on strike, they resolved it. But here, they felt nonchalant. Do you know why? It is because they (government officials) have no commitments. Their children are not here.

We will go as far as we can on this strike to the point they are ready to agree to our demands.”

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