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A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Haruna Yerima, has urged President Bola Tinubu to resoluteness the outstanding issues with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and not let them to dent his administration’s bully image.
He advised President Tinubu to debar the pitfalls that marred the administrations of his predecessors, which culminated successful agelong strikes that grounded the nationalist universities.
Professor Yerima appealed connected Sunday successful a connection helium released successful Abuja.
ASUU embarked connected a two-week informing onslaught past week implicit the national government’s alleged refusal to honour the agreements it signed with the lecturers.
The national said Nigerian assemblage lecturers are the poorest successful Africa, earning acold little than their colleagues successful smaller economies similar Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Uganda.
Professor Yerima, a House of Representatives member, said, “Mr President, arsenic a realist, you are afloat alert of the infrastructural decay successful our nationalist universities. The student-teacher and infrastructure ratio is not encouraging. These are facts. This is what ASUU is warring for.”
He said the economical reforms President Tinubu undertook were taking their toll connected the assemblage teachers.
“What professors successful Nigerian universities gain monthly is peanuts compared to their workload. The wage can’t wage their basal utilities, schoolhouse fees, and medicals,” helium said.
The don urged the president to “understand that astir of his enactment basal are the youth, supposedly successful the universities. It is incumbent connected Mr President not to artifact with the aboriginal of the younker by allowing the onslaught to fester.”
“Don’t repetition the mistakes made by the precocious President Muhammadu Buhari, who recorded the second-longest ASUU onslaught successful Nigerian history. It is imaginable to code each the tenable agreements reached with ASUU erstwhile and for all. You person the capableness and wherewithal to bash conscionable that,” the prof said.
Mr Yerima said, “Other laudable policies, specified arsenic making Nigeria a trillion-dollar economy, can’t beryllium achieved with an uneducated younker constituting the moving population. Nigerians person tremendous assurance successful you to resoluteness the ASUU age-long debacle, and we are definite you volition not neglect them.”
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