The National President of Nigeria
Labour Congress (NLC) Abdulwaheed
Omar has stated that the ongoing
strike by the Academic Staff Union of
University (ASUU) would soon be
called off even as advised security
agents to devise new strategies in
tackling the security challenges
facing the country.
Omar, who spoke in the same vein
with Niger State Governor, Dr Muazu
Babangida Aliyu, at the 10TH
Quadrennial Conference of the Nigeria
Civil Service Union yesterday in
Minna, decried the use of security
agents to oppress people in the
nation’s polity. He stated that the
NLC, in recognizing that ASUU is an
affiliate body, held a meeting with the
union on Monday and would present
the position to Vice-president
Namadi Sambo who is now leading
the government’s negotiating team.
The NLC president said: “The ASUU
strike is a matter of concern to all of
us. ASUU is an affiliate of the NLC;
we held a meeting two days ago to
reach an understanding; we are to
meet the vice president.”
He explained that the congress was
hoping to bring both parties together,
saying that “very soon ASUU strike
will be history.”
The NLC boss stated that the strike
had reached the level it was because
government does things with
impunity.
“Government signed an agreement
and they said it was previous
administration; if government can
inherit foreign reserves from the
previous administration while
dodging the agreement reached by
the previous administration,
government should fulfil its sides of
the bargain,” he added.
Omar called on security agents to
devise new strategies to check the
security challenges facing the
country, and decried the way security
agents subject Nigerians to hardships
at checkpoints and other places, all
in the bid to end the insurgence
especially in some parts of the north.
“We cannot be in bondage unending,
security agents should have a plan
and engage modern technology to
fight the insurgency and give the
people a breathing space,” he stated.
He decried the use of security agents
by government to oppress political
opponents, citing the happenings in
River State and the closure of
Adamawa Governor’s Lodge in Abuja
as a pure display of impunity.
“Governance cannot continually be
done with perpetual impunity,
particularly in a democracy; we must
tell ourselves the truth; we cannot act
against the people that put us there”,
he said.
NSCDC boss goes spiritual, declares
7-day fasting
The Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) has declared
seven days of fasting and prayer in all
its commands to seek divine solution
to the lingering strike by ASUU, which
grounded Nigerian universities since
July this year.
In a statement by his spokesman, Mr
Okeh Emmanuel, the commandant-
general of the corps, Prof. Ade
Abolurin, who declared the fast, said
the decision was motivated by the
corps’ desire to bring about a quick
end to the industrial action following
the deadlock between the federal
government negotiating team and the
striking university teachers.
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well I hope with loads of optimism that the strike be called off