Why we are still on strike — ASUU

The lingering face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) seems unabated, as the lecturers have again accused the Federal Government of being responsible for the litany of woes militating against the growth and advancement of education in the country.
The union made this disclosure in a press statement signed by Dr. Innocent Ibeawuchi, the Chairperson of Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) chapter of ASUU.
The statement contained the resolutions of its meeting held at the university’s  ASUU Conference Room.
It attributed the neglect of the nation’s educational system to government’s deliberate attempt to under-fund the sector so as to encourage their proxies to establish flourishing private schools.
The lecturers pointed out this as a calculated attempt to make education accessible to only the children of the rich to the detriment of the poor, noting that it was only the actions and inaction of ASUU that had resisted the government’s plan for the total collapse of university education system in the country.
The ASUU stated that ASUU was on strike because Federal Government had ignored, failed and bluntly refused to implement the core components of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement.
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