ASUU: FG is dismantling public colleges in favor of those owned by the political class.

Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports

The Federal Government is reportedly purposely choking and killing Nigeria’s public universities in order to promote private institutions that are purportedly controlled by the political elite, according to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, or ASUU.

In order to end the strike and allow kids to return to school, it was further stated that the Federal Government has been calculatingly undermining the union’s efforts since 2017 to find a meaningful answer to its demands.

Furthermore, it said that the administration was more concerned with the welfare and future of young people in Nigeria than with the general election campaign in 2023.

After their meeting at Igbariam, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, the Chairperson and Secretary of ASUU, Chukwiuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, COOU, Anambra State, Comrade Okey Aniebo and Comrade David Enibe, respectively, released a statement outlining this.

“It is regrettable that the Federal Government has been using falsehoods, blackmail, deceit, and delay tactics to keep breaking the 2009 ASUU FGN Agreement. The Federal Government is calculatingly dribbling ASUU since 2017 in order to find a resolution to the ASUU and FGN face-off.

In order to promote private institutions, which are mostly controlled by the political class and are only concerned with the wellbeing and future of Nigerian youth, they have been purposefully suffocating and killing public universities.

The Federal Government, which established the Prof. Ali Munzuali and Prof. Nimi Briggs Committee to rewrite the 2009 FGN ASUU Agreement, did not take the committee seriously and instead frustrated it.

“At first, ASUU had thought that the government had taken the action in good faith in an effort to settle the contentious issues and put an end to the strike. Unfortunately, the government abandoned the separate Reports of the committee, confirming ASUU’s suspicion that it is not interested in seeing the strike come to an end.

“We regret to tell the general public that the Federal Government of Nigeria has chosen to embrace falsehoods, blackmail, deceit, and delay tactics in order to continue breaking the 2009 ASUU FGN Agreement and is not serious about terminating the ongoing strike,” the statement reads.