International Coordinator of Concerned
Human Rights Nigeria, Declan Ihekaire
has described the on-going strike action
by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) as a ‘conspiracy
theory of the federal government
against the Nigerian masses,’ adding
that the lapses in the education sector of
the country are an intentional move to
advance the cause of privately owned
tertiary institutions.
“You find out that gradually they are killing
the public educational sector while they are
energising the privately owned institution,” he
said during an interview on Channels
Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise
Daily, on Wednesday.
To further prove his point, he alleged that all
local government councillors in Nigeria have
their children enrolled in privately owned
institutions and not government owned
schools.
He also accused the government of being
insincere about its claim to reverberate public
tertiary institutions.
He said that the federal government entered
into an agreement with ASUU In 2009 to
revamp the education sector with a total of
N1.2 trillion, a deal the federal government is
yet to fulfill. “We should begin to have a
federal government that should start thinking
about the people first and stop reneging on
agreements.
“It is something they should honour,” he said.
Responding to federal government’s claim
that the opposition has infiltrated ASUU,
Ihekaire said this is ‘nice’. “It is a nice
statement”
“I remember they said that too in January
during the January 2012 uprising when they
said that we, the civil societies, are opposition.
It was OK but the issue is that” so many
committees were set up afterwards in a bid to
resolve the situation.
The civil societies have decided to back up
ASUU because “as a parent, I’m afraid that I
might not be able to send my children to
public institutions in the nearest future. I need
to guard the future of my children”

Just few weeks to graduate ˚˚°ºoo . Abeg make dem call off the strike.

War-reffa!!!

Watcanfa