ASUU strike: UNIZIK teachers protest over non-implementation of agreement by FG
AWKA—MEMBERS of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, branch of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, in Awka took to
the streets on a peaceful protest to prevail on the Federal Government
to implement the agreement it reached with the union in 2009 on the
proper funding of the country’s public universities.
The lecturers
gathered at the popular Aroma junction in the Anambra State capital as
early as 8. 00am, displaying placards with some inscriptions as ‘Kill
education, kill development’; ‘Fund education, fund development’; ‘ASUU
for quality education’; ‘FG: agreement is agreement’; and ‘Nigeria needs
quality education’.
UNIZIK ASUU chairman, Professor Ike Odumegwu,
who addressed the lecturers among others, accused politicians and some
wealthy Nigerians of deliberately trying to kill education in the
country so that their private universities could make education beyond
the reach of the poor people.
He said: “The implementation of the
agreement borders on morality. We are neither negotiating, nor
renegotiating with the Federal Government, but only asking government to
implement the agreement it signed with ASUU in 2009.
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