ASUU STRIKE: STUDENTS VOW TO SHUT DOWN PRIVATE VARSITIES

ASUU STRIKE: STUDENTS VOW TO SHUT DOWN PRIVATE VARSITIES.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday took to the streets in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, calling on the Federal Government to comply to the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), failure of which they intend to shut academic activities in all the private universities across the country.
The students who carried various placards with various inscriptions, stick a knife into the Federal Government for its failure to honour the agreement it had with ASUU since 2009, saying agreements are expected to be honoured in good faith
The aggrieved students expressed their discontentment against what they described as a continuous recession in the standard of education since Dr Goodluck Jonathan emerged as the president of the country.

“The Federal Government has done a lot and I think ASUU should also sacrifice and shift ground as the whole negotiation is becoming political.”
Suswam, who is leading the Federal Government negotiation team with ASUU revealed that the sum of N 100 billion has already been distributed for infrastructural development and N30 billion for earned allowance”
According to the governor, the criteria for distribution of funds was adopted with ASUU representatives and stated that all projects are to be executed by the universities and their councils.
He further revealed that the earned allowance is for only Federal Universities and as such, state universities have no business going on strike.

Also speaking, a student leader in EKSU, Comrade Steven Adara, noted that those in government and some notable prominent Nigerians are not helping the matter, as they are in the habit of sending their sons and daughters to private schools in Nigeria and overseas, threatening to disrupt activities in most of the private institutions if the present ASUU strike is not addressed by the government as soon as possible.