Strike: ASUU Slams Buhari Over Silence On Educational Sector

News Rain Nigeria reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities has lamented the way President Muhammadu Buhari is handling issues regarding the educational sector of the Country.

ASSU speaking on the development through its Kano Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Mahmud Lawan said that “ASUU is worried over the irresponsible posture of the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the future of education,  and youth in our dear nation”

Professor Lawan further said that as you are aware that we in ASUU with the constitutional obligation of protecting advancing the socio-economic and cultural interests of the nation have continued through the decades to struggle for the survival and revitalization of public universities”.

Lawan concerned the role of supervising minister of education,  Malam Adamu Adamu over the protracted crisis in the University, maintaining that the worse in performance in this matter is the office of Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu who has failed to mediate adequately between the union and the office of the President “.

Lawan said that the Kano zone of ASUU is compelled to, unfortunately, call a spade a spade on the current prolonged impasse between the federal government and the union, stressing that it is noteworthy for the patriotic of Nigerian to know that the Union has noticed that the office of the Minister of labor and employment, Mr. Chris Ngige which is supposed to serve in conciliatory capacity has instead, become a government propaganda machine throughout the engagement and has woefully failed in its mandate to mediate dispassionately “.

Prof. Lawan further said that the ASUU has vehemently opposed and resisted the implementation of IPPIS because its deployment into Universities is blatant erosion and desecration of the hard-won University autonomy.

Prof. Lawal explained that the future of university education in this country will depend, to a large degree on the amount of interest shown by the Nigerian public on university affairs and happenings on their campuses.

Lawan recalled that their members have vowed never to enroll on the IPPIS platform despite been subjected and their families to serious hunger, starvation, and deprivation by withholding their salaries.

The Kano ASSU coordinator maintained that the IPPIS is a world bank project hoisted on Nigeria as an economic reform and governance project under a credit loan of US$140 million launched in 2007 by the Federal government.