ASUU Strike: NANS set to engage FG on the way forward

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The National Association of Nigerian Students is set to engage the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, over alleged reports that the Federal Government has no money to meet the demands of ASUU.

The student body has, however, dissociated itself from a report calling for the sack of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, by some “faceless students.”

The Association’s Vice President (Special Duties), Odiahi Ikhine, who addressed a news conference on Monday in Abuja, said the students were unhappy with the comments of the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, when he said that the government had no money to meet the demands of ASUU.

Recall that Keyamo asked parents to beg ASUU to call off the strike because the government could not afford the 1.2 trillion demands of the union as proposed by the Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs Committee on the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement.

Ikhine said the leadership of the Association planned to meet with Adamu and Ngige to know precisely what was happening after President Buhari gave a directive that the strike be resolved within two weeks. And why government officials were coming out to say that there was no money to meet the union’s demands.

He vowed that the students would not relent in their efforts to ensure the FG does the right thing. 

“On the issue of ASUU strike, we as an organisation have been doing our best. We have been able to pressure the government, and just recently, the NLC called for a protest, and we joined them. As it is, we are not relenting.

Source: punchng.com

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