The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has called on Nigerian parents and guardians whose parents are affected by the ongoing shutdown of academic activities in government-owned universities to appeal to the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off the lingering strike.

ASUU had declared a nationwide strike on Monday, February 14, 2022.

The strike, according to the union, was as a result of the failure of the government to meet some demands such as the release of the revitalisation funds for universities, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, deployment of the University Transparency Accountability System for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers, renegotiation of the ASUU-Federal Government 2009 agreement among others.

Since the strike began, stakeholders had called on the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to find a lasting solution to the strike and increase funding of tertiary institutions.

The President, in a meeting with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, alongside his other colleague, gave a directive to the members of his cabinet involved to ensure a speedy solution to the strike.

However, our correspondent reports that close to three weeks after the directive by the President, the union was yet to suspend its strike.

Featuring on a programme on Channels Television, Keyamo noted that the government had done its best and appealed to parents to “beg” ASUU.

“The moment they went on strike, we intervened, what is the manner again beyond that ? Even before the strike began, we called them to a meeting, what manner is more than that? It’s not like we left them to go on strike first and we were sleeping, as the talk started, they still went on strike.

“You can not allow one sector of the economy to hold you down and then blackmail you to go and borrow N1.2 trillion and our total income is around N6.1 trillion and we have roads to build, health centres and other sectors to take care of.

“I will tell the parents, everybody to go and beg ASUU like the President said the other time, those who know them should appeal to their sense of patriotism. The nation can not ground to a halt because we want to take care of the demands of ASUU”.

BeeBeeOoh:
ASUU is on strike and Buhari's government used a billion+ to buy vehicles for another country.

See, if you don't want to correct 2015 and 2019 mistakes come 2023 na me and you go suffer the suffer.

If you like lose guard like Lord luggard, na the same market all us of us dey go buy things.

madridguy:
The FG and ASUU are both working hand in hand to kill the government own universities.
They succeeded in Primary and secondary school, and now they're doing same too with the universities since they owns the private universities across the country.

Nigeria is the most dangerous place for a poor person to live. In the next 10 years, if you cannot send your children to private university then forget sending them to university.

Munamoqel:
ASU need a 1000billion so even the 1 bn for Niger will not make them call off !

BeeBeeOoh:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsT_Y9PY_t4

https://punchng.com/beg-ASUU-we-cant-borrow-keyamo-tells-parents/

To think that this guy started out as an activist I used to admire. Now look at the BATstard. No genuine person in Nigeria ready to serve, everyone just after their pockets

BeeBeeOoh:

https://www.nairaland.com/6779000/little-blind-paralyzed-bliss-victor#106305825

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsT_Y9PY_t4

https://punchng.com/beg-ASUU-we-cant-borrow-keyamo-tells-parents/