Shocking ASUU Reply to Jonathan: Your Begging Won't End This Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has turned down President Goodluck Jonathan’s plea for the lecturers to end their strike of over 110 days old.

“ASUU does not need any plea from Mr President, we are not asking for impossible things. The Government reached an agreement with us and we are asking them to honour it. It is so simple.
“Our country has the resources to honour the agreement but education is not given priority. The Minister of Aviation (Mrs Stella Oduah) just got two bulletproof cars bought for N255m by an agency under her supervision. So, who do you want to tell that this country does not have the resources?

“Government should be honourable. Is it honourable not to honour an agreement? Certainly no. The Federal Government should not allow the public universities to continue to degenerate. Posterity will not forgive us if we allow public universities to totally collapse.

“We won’t allow public universities to be destroyed. That is why they are establishing private universities all over the country with the nation’s money. Except those owned by the missionaries, tell me which of the private universities was not established with the nation’s resources?”

These were the words of ASUU Chairman, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Adegbola Akinola.

The ASUU chief warned that children from poor homes might no longer have access to university education if the union should succumb to the blackmail being employed against it by the government.