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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called connected President Bola Tinubu to instantly halt the question of resignations of high-profile professors and elder lecturers moving successful nationalist universities, saying the wide resignation is caused by a deficiency of respect for tertiary acquisition by the national government.
The chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, Dr Adefemi Afolabi, stated this portion featuring on, “Situation Room”, a vigor programme successful Ibadan, noting that the government’s indifference manifests successful the mode it treats the payment and conditions of work of its intellectuals successful nationalist universities.
The union, however, maintained that it would not wantonness the combat to person decent payment and conditions of work for its members and would guarantee that governments perpetrate capable backing to the revitalisation of nationalist universities successful the involvement of the children of the masses.
It would beryllium recalled that ASUU commenced a two-week informing onslaught connected Monday to protestation the nonaccomplishment of the national authorities to motion the renegotiated draught statement reached with the Yayale Ahmed committee acceptable up by the Tinubu-led authorities to renegotiate with the national which concluded its sittings implicit 8 months.
According to Afolabi, the national authorities took ASUU for granted for implicit 8 months adding that the national was not blessed to proceed connected the informing onslaught but was forced to the hold maneuver attack that the national authorities adopted arsenic good arsenic its posture to jettison rule of corporate bargaining.
The ASUU brag stated that the national waited for 8 months, organised protests to sensitise Nigerians connected the request for the authorities to motion the draught renegotiated statement with the authorities committee headed by Yayale Ahmed but the authorities came backmost with a caller committee to commencement the engagement each over.
Apart from Professors’ resignation, Afolabi lamented that young lecturers who were precocious employed were besides resigning arsenic they were shocked by the salaries and conditions of work erstwhile they were paid.
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