Activist Set For Hunger-Strike Over ASUU Strike

A frontline Nigerian rights activist,
Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, is
set to go on a hunger strike as his
contribution towards ending
industrial action by the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),
which has crippled the country’s
public universities since July 1.
ASUU is seeking to force the federal
government to fulfill an agreement
reached in 2009 under which
government is supposed to have
committed at half a trillion naira to
the country’s university sector. ASUU
has rejected the N130 billion offered
by the Goodluck Jonathan
administration, insisting on full
implementation of the agreement.
Writing on his Facebook wall,
Onwubiko, National Coordinator of
the Abuja-based Human Rights
Writers’ Association of Nigeria
(HURIWA), said: “Watch out: I will
announce the date for
commencement of a two-day hunger
strike in support of ending ASUU
strike, reopening public universities
and adequately funding them and
for lecturers engaging in sex-for-
marks to be identified and
prosecuted by ICPC/and/or EFCC.
When the date is disclosed, I will
solicit your support and prayers.”
Contacted this morning, Onwubiko,
who is also a Columnist with News
Express, said that there is no going
back on the hunger strike. He
disclosed that it would hold “next
week Tuesday/Wednesday,” adding:
“I will issue a press release today.”
•Photo shows Comrade Emmanuel
Onwubiko.
Source News Express
Source: http://www.newsexpressngr.com

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