ASUU: Can govt stealing palliatives, hiding Indomie, rice take education seriously? – Adeyanju

TRACKING_____Activist, Deji Adeyanju, has given reasons for the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, putting the blame on the current administration.

“These are people who are stealing palliatives, hiding Indomie and rice in warehouses and you want them to take university education seriously? You want them to take ASUU seriously? Adeyanju said in a chat with DAILY POST on Tuesday.

The outspoken activist noted that there is a deliberate attempt by politicians to eliminate public universities in the country.

He said that Nigerians should not be surprised to see prolonged strikes in public institutions since the children of the President, vice President, Senate President, the Speaker, Governors and even commissioners and other public office holders are comfortably schooling abroad.

According to the activist, the President Muhammadu Buhari government came in with the promise to put an end to these, but has made things worse.

“The public university system in Nigeria has been abandoned. You can see that there is no public official that have their children in Nigerian schools. No one.

“Even the NUC Chairman, the head of the NUC, his children are schooling abroad. So how do you expect the schools to work?

“All their children are abroad. They’re busy sharing social Investment money. They’ve looted over N90 billion through the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.

“Monies that should be used to develop the universities and pay the lecturers very well, so why won’t there be strike? Look at the universities in the country, they’re like refugees camps.

The hostels are not habitable, the lecture theatres don’t have working air conditions, no fans, nothing works. The lecturers will be teaching and sweating. Nothing is working in all the public tertiary institutions in the country.

“You can see that all the schools that are functioning in this country are private schools. They destroy the public schools and have taken their children abroad.