Abbas Leads Reps Panel To Settle Govt, Varsity Lecturers’ Dispute

The House of Representatives has constituted an advertisement hoc committee, with the Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen, arsenic chairman, to intervene successful the concern quality betwixt the national authorities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The squad is mandated to facilitate a mutually acceptable solution of the crisis.

This followed the adoption of a question of urgent nationalist value moved by Hon. Sesi Oluwaseun Whingan (APC, Lagos) astatine plenary yesterday.

Whingan expressed interest implicit ASUU’s declaration of a two-week informing onslaught implicit issues relating to the implementation of anterior agreements with the national government, peculiarly connected revitalisation funding, earned world allowances, wage operation and assemblage autonomy.

He said that though the national has described the onslaught arsenic a warning, specified concern actions person historically escalated into prolonged shutdowns that disrupted world calendars, derailed research, and deepened the vexation of students, parents and lecturers.

The lawmaker said the Nigerian assemblage strategy remains cardinal to nationalist development, innovation and human-capital growth, stressing that immoderate disruption successful its operations weakens the country’s economical competitiveness, technological advancement and younker productivity.

He said, “Further alert that acquisition is constitutionally recognised nether Section 18 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) arsenic a cardinal operator of societal and technological progress, and that some the national authorities and assemblage unions stock a corporate work to safeguard its continuity and quality.

“Cognisant that repeated strikes successful the tertiary assemblage person led to pupil dropouts, encephalon drain, and nonaccomplishment of nationalist confidence, thereby threatening nationalist stableness and the realisation of Nigeria’s semipermanent improvement goals.

“Convinced that the lingering impasse betwixt ASUU and the Federal Government requires renewed dialog anchored connected communal respect, transparency, and bully faith, with the Legislature serving arsenic a neutral facilitator successful the involvement of students and the nation,” helium added.

Adopting the motion, the House urged some parties to workout restraint, clasp dialogue, and prioritise students’ interests and nationalist improvement supra each different considerations.