ASUU Strike Has Increased Prostitution, Group Alleges

COALITION of Civil Society Organizations,
Market women and students have staged a
protest with placards of different
inscriptions at the Federal Capital Territory,
FCT, Abuja, over the continuous strike by
the Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, alleging that the strike has increased
prostitution in the country.
The group which noted that the strike was
entering the fourth month appealed to the
Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade
Union Congress, TUC and appealed to the
union to call off the strike in the interest of
Nigerians.
Some of the placards read, “ASUU please
save our young girls from prostitution, NLC,
TUC and NUPENG mediate now, Stop
playing politics with our future, This ASUU
strike has lost its tactics, ASUU please save
our future.”
Though, the group in some of the placards
had accused the striking university teachers
of being selfish and too rigid in their
demands, in what looked like a
contradiction, the groups also said that the
demands were germane and for the good
of the education system.
Delivering a letter to the NLC President at
the Labour House, the leader of the protest
and Executive Director of Conscience
Nigeria, Comrade Tosin Adeyanju said that
they decided to embark on the protest to
appeal to the labour leaders to mediate on
the lingering face-off between ASUU and
the Federal Government that had led to the
continuous closure of public universities in
the country.
Comrade Adeyanjul said, “We embarked on
this protest today to further appeal to all
major stakeholders in the Nigeria project
and we deem it fit to come to the labour
house because of the strategic importance
that labour represents in this country.
“For almost 100 days, our students, our
dependants, our children have been locked
out of our ivory towers and nothing has
changed. We are here to appeal to the
labour leaders in this country to come and
mediate on the lingering and prolonged
ASUU strikes.
“We are not unaware on the germane and
relevant issues raised by ASUU, there is
need for our institutions to be revitalized,
there is need for improved research, there
is need for improved allowance, there is
need for infrastructural development in
ivory towers, but all over the world no
country has been able to meet the
demands of labour unions 100 per cent.”
“With the information available to us, we
are aware that the federal government
proposed and has given ASUU a 100 billion
initial fund requested for different issues in
the various universities.
We are aware that ASUU appealed for more
money to be given on the earned allowance
and 30 billion was given for earned
allowance as at today about 130 billion has
been given to ASUU.”
Receiving the protesters, President of NLC,
Abduwaheed Omar, represented by the
Chief Economist of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo’eson
said that the labour leaders had initiated
moves by writing to the Federal government
about four times on how to mediate but
government had not responded to their
letters.
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ASUU-strike-increased-prostitution-group-
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