FG- We don’t know why ASUU is on strike

FG- We don’t know why ASUU is on strike

… says state univeMinister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, talking in Abuja,also told the association that it coming up short on freedoms to direct to the public authority how compensations of individuals who he noted,were representatives, ought to be paid by government being their boss

He said the central government has restricted assets and can’t get cash to pay ASUU, saying government can acquire cash to subsidize framework like rail lines and other basic foundation where it gets return from.”Why they (ASUU) have decided to take to the streets is something that neither you nor I can explain”,he told columnists while responding to inquiries on the national government and ASUU go head to head.

“In the school system,we have around 2.6 million Nigerian students in the almost 200 colleges across Nigeria. The central government possesses under 50 of these colleges. State legislatures own almost 50 of them too though private people,private organisations,faith based associations own north of 100 of them”The just part where youngsters are not in school right now are the ones that have a place with the national government. So there is no requirement for some other college to be at home,”he said.

Nwajiuba made sense of that,”The commitment with Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU,has been a long drawn one,based on the 2009 understanding that was endorsed before we came into government.

” It is our obligation as government to give life to those arrangement which ASUU appropriately looks to ensure that the colleges that the central government possesses are appropriately supported.

“The national government’s subsidizing is extremely restricted and due to the extra difficulties of security,it needed to over and again get cash to back projects. This equivalent acquiring isn’t accessible to fabricate social framework, it’s simply accessible to assemble foundation that administration can get return from,like railroads. “To get and pay individuals is typically not what World Bank or other monetary organizations acquire cash for.

However,the central government has kept on addressing this by it are because of pay the compensations that.”

He said the college instructors can’t keep on directing to the public authority how their compensations be paid.

Hear him:”Government is the person who pays, consequently, it is illogical and mixed up that someone who is paid a compensation keeps on directing for somebody who pays him.”rsities should not be joining ASSU strike over issues professed to have caused strike
*You can’t direct to us how your compensation be paid, it tells ASUU
By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA
THE central government said it was as yet not mindful of reasons that caused the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

This was as it said colleges established and being supported by state legislatures should not be joining government colleges on strike,if the reason for the strike annoyed on issues the association guaranteed.