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Lockdown: ASUU asks government to provide food, water, electricity
By echotitbits -April 3, 2020020


Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, National President, Association of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advised Federal and State governments to ensure Nigerians are provided with essential needs while the lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic is enforced.

In a statement issued by its National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in Ibadan on Thursday, ASUU warned that lockdown of the country to maintain social distancing as a measure to curb the increasing spread of coronavirus may not achieve its desired result except everyday needs of Nigerians are made available.

Ogunyemi noted that for the lockdown to work, government should provide the basic needs of the people which are food, water and reasonable electricity supply.

He expresses fear that should government fail to provide these basic needs of the people, government at both Federal and State may face a difficult time keeping people in their homes which end up counterproductive.

The ASUU president emphasized that “access to electricity and running water and an unbroken chain of food supply and availability of other essential items should be key components of the policy called lockdown.

“Unless the people’s survival needs are factored into the equation, governments at the national and sub-national levels may be courting an uncontrollable regime of rebellion which may be counterproductive to the cause of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria,” he said.

Ogunyemi advised political leaders across the country to work with everyone so as make the world safe noting that “the lesson to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic is that issues of health and safety know no territorial boundaries.”

He further reiterate the commitment of ASUU to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic saying “ASUU subscribes to this winning formula and path to collective health. In this our shared globe, no one is safe epidemiologically, socially or physically until everyone is safe.”

He encouraged Nigerians to adhere to the advise and instruction by relevant authorities managing the situation.

“We can conquer the fear emerging from the manifestation of this global pandemic in our little corners. We can contribute to the global movement for prevention and control of its spread by applying the health guides and information from the World Health Organisation and other professional institutions and agencies,” Ogunyemi added.

Ogunyemi also highlighted that ASUU has been contributing its quota to eradicating coronavirus through the distribution of sanitizers and sensitization materials to many locations.

Rochas of the west

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ASUU, when are we going to start benefitting from you people?

What are you contributing as an association....

ASUU distributing sanitizers, can u imagine? When their mates in other countries are busy in the labs looking for cure to this virus. Useless and greedy set of jackass �