Sowore Advises Students On What To Do Over ASUU Strike

Sowore Advises Students On What To Do Over ASUU Strike

A Nigerian activist and presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore, has advised students affected by the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ strike to demonstrate their dissatisfaction through a “mass action.”

ASUU announced on Monday that its ongoing strike has been extended by 12 weeks.

A statement signed by ASUU’s president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said the extension was to give the Federal Government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.

Reacting to the announcement on Monday, Sowore took to his Twitter page and urged public universities’ students to teach “inhuman” political rulers a “big lesson” by commencing a mass action.

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“Nigerian youths/students must teach these inhuman political rulers playing Russian roulette with their future a BIG lesson.

“Let the organising start now, shut down everything with mass action, stop everything until our higher institutions are well funded #WeCantContinueLikeThis.

“They’re doing this because their kids don’t attend Nigerian universities! #Revolutionnow!,” he wrote.

According to the union, the strike was due to the Federal Government’s failure to implement an agreement between both parties, signed in 2009.

It had also accused the Federal Government of working against the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, a payment platform designed by the union in place of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System by the Federal Government.

The union, therefore, demanded the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement; release of earned allowances for university lecturers; and deployment of the UTAS payment platform for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers.

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