ASUU Strike: OAU Student pleads with FG
The Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University chaper, Ile -Ife, has, on Tuesday, asked the Federal Government to heed to the agreement they had with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
In a statement jointly signed by the President, Olayiwola Folahan Festus; the Public Relations Officer, Ogunperi Taofeek; and the Secretary General, Odewale Samuel, the union said it was Unforgiving due the failure of the government in keeping their word to ASUU.
The union stressed that the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the ASUU strike already created a negative impact and extending the ASUU strike only makes things worse.
An official statement released by the Union says: “Recall that in 2020, COVID-19 pandemic and ASUU strike had a negative impact dealt on the education system.
“With the extension of strike y 2months, there is no hope for academic activities to hold until June 2022 when it is even unsure if the strike will be called off. As a responsible Union, we cannot fold our arms and watch Nigerian students suffer again.
“On this note, we want to inform Union members, past and present comrades of our Union and the general public, that our position over the ASUU-FG entanglement is that the Federal Government should heed to the agreements it had with ASUU. As it restrains the academic success of members of our Union and their growth as human beings.
“We are hereby, sensitizing members of our Union and the general public, as Intellectual Fighters for Emancipation (IFE), that the Federal Government needs to address the issue immediately.”
The union criticized the Federal Government for not respecting the universally recognized right to education and the fight by students for a better education across tertiary institutions in the country.
“As a Union, we cannot keep mute about this. As Dr Martin Luther King said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”. And our education matters.
“Furthermore, we solicit for the ushakeable support of union members and students across all other tertiary institutions that we may collectively win this fight. We must constantly remind ourselves that there will be victory at last, because united we stand, divded we fall.
