Dissuade ASUU from embarking on strike- PTA president pleads with FG
The National President, Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of Nigeria, Danjuma Haruna, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly intercede and to discourage ASUU from embarking on a fresh nationwide strike.
The PTA National President made the plea while addressing newsmen in Kaduna following recent threats of a fresh strike by many branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. He stressed on the paramount need for the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to sit at a round table to resolve the matter in order to avoid another shut down of academic activities in universities, because commencing another strike would definitely affect the educational system in the country, stressing that so many students would be forced to go home and be idle and this will lead to more forms of corruption in the country.
He also noted that solving ASUU problems would help to improve the standard of education in all the Universities across the Nation.
In his words:
“If you will recall the last ASUU strike which ended in March 2020, lasted for exactly nine months and was only called off when the Federal Government allowed ASUU members receive their salaries through their home-grown University Transparency and Accountability Solution, (UTAS), software instead of the Federal Government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System,(IPPIS). Our children or wards will come back home if ASUU starts its strike, and this is of great disadvantage for our young boys and girls who are supposed to be studying. So as parents, we would continue to plead with ASUU and the Federal government to to dialogue and resolve their problems rather than go on a fresh strike.”
Mr. Haruna also requested for federal government to pay heed to ASUU’s demands, dissuade ASUU and not let another strike commence over the same UTAS and IPPIS issues. He also pleaded with ASUU for PTA to be given a chance to intercede on behalf of all University staffs and Nigerian students by talking to president Buhari, rather than embarking on a fresh strike which may likely have ruinous effect on the education sector.”
