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ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke
The Educational Employees Union of Universities has referred to as on Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Authorities to urgently deal with all excellent points contained within the December 2020 FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Motion.
In a press release signed by ASUU nationwide president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, after a two-day Nationwide Govt Council assembly held on the College of Calabar, Cross River State, the union maintained it was not in assist of the proposed introduction of training mortgage, saying it could fail.
The assertion learn, “ASUU calls on Nigerians of goodwill to, within the curiosity of our college students and the nation, prevail on the Nigerian authorities to urgently deal with all excellent points contained within the December 2020 FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Motion.
“NEC rejects with vehemence, the present makes an attempt to impose master-slave therapy because the mechanism for relating with Nigerian students beneath no matter guise by the ruling class. ASUU members are residents, not slaves.
“Lastly, NEC appreciates the resilience of our members and their households. Their understanding and perseverance, within the face of hardship and provocation occasioned by the federal government’s intransigence and insensitivity, shall be rewarded by posterity.”
It stated that the Federal Authorities was step by step disengaging itself from funding public universities throughout the nation.
The assertion continued, “NEC noticed with concern the systematic disengagement of presidency from funding of Public Universities by the proposed introduction of training mortgage which has confirmed to be a monumental failure in our nation and another international locations the place it was launched.
“We discover it troubling that the proponents of the coverage are so wanting to foist it down the throat of Nigerians once they have accomplished extra to push the working folks of this nation into poverty by sheer incompetence in dealing with the financial fortunes of our nation.”
It stated the union was disturbed by the surreptitious strikes by the federal government to cost college training past the attain of the poor Nigerian college students and their dad and mom by the introduction of varied expenses.
The assertion added that the assembly additionally reviewed and condemned authorities’s try to casualise the job of intellectuals, “as mirrored within the pro-rated salaries paid to our members for the month of October 2022, in addition to the continued withholding of our members’ salaries for the previous eight months, even when the backlog of the work are being lined by our members in numerous universities.”
