ASUU Strike: FG Can’t Borrow Money To Please Them - Keyamo
Category: Nigeria News
The Minister of State for Labor and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has called
on Nigerian parents and guardians whose parents are affected by the ongoing
shutdown of academic activities in government-owned universities to appeal to
the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off the lingering strike.
ASUU had declared a nationwide strike on Monday, February 14, 2022.
The strike, according to the union, was as a result of the failure
of the government to meet some demands such as the release of the revitalization
funds for universities, release of earned allowances for university lecturers,
deployment of the University Transparency Accountability System for the payment
of salaries and allowances of university lecturers, renegotiation of the
ASUU-Federal Government 2009 agreement among others.
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Since the strike
began, stakeholders had called on the regime of the President, Major General
Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.), to find a lasting solution to the strike and increase funding of
tertiary institutions.
Featuring on a programme on Channels
Television, Keyamo noted that the government had done its best and appealed to
parents to “beg” ASUU.
“The moment they went on strike, we
intervened, what is the manner again beyond that ? Even before the strike began,
we called them to a meeting, what manner is more than that? It’s not like we
left them to go on strike first and we were sleeping, as the talk started, they
still went on strike.
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“You can not allow one sector of the economy to
hold you down and then blackmail you to go and borrow N1.2 trillion and our
total income is around N6.1 trillion and we have roads to build, health centres
and other sectors to take care of.
“I will tell the parents,
everybody to go and beg ASUU like the President said the other time, those who
know them should appeal to their sense of patriotism. The nation can not ground
to a halt because we want to take care of the demands of ASUU”.
But he can borrow to buy expensive jeeps for another country?
ReplyDeleteBut he can borrow money (1.4b) to buy vehicles please Niger Republic
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