Market Women Protest ASUU Strike At National Assembly

It seems its not just the students that are
affected by the ASUU strike as protesting
traders, under the aegis of National Market
Women Association, Monday, stormed the
National Assembly, demanding that the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
call off its more than three months old
strike.
The protesters, who had been at the
Ministry of Education and Office of the
Head of Service, arrived the Assembly
complex at 11.30a.m.
The President-General of the group, Mrs
Felicia Sani, who led the more than 200
protesting women, said: “We are tired of
seeing our children at home. We want our
children back in school. Enough of this
cheap blackmail.
“We all know what they do with our year-
one daughters in the university. We equally
know that they sell handouts and
handbooks.
“Is this not worse than corruption of the
highest order?”
The President-General of the group, Mrs
Felicia Sani when asked why she did not
criticize the Federal Government for failing
to reach an agreement with ASUU said:
“Which agreement? How do you expect
lecturers in state universities to earn same
salaries as Federal ones? That is
impossible.
“We are not educated, but you do not
expect a hotel in my village to cost same
price as a hotel in Abuja.
“They are located in different places. So
how can a state university lecturer earn
same salary with his federal counterpart?
“We are begging them for the last time. If
we come out again we may have to chase
them out of this country and replace them
with so many jobless Nigerians.”
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