THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has challenged the Minister of State for Education and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, to elucidate to Nigerians how he came about N100million to buy the APC Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination Form.
In line with ASUU, in serious climes, Nwajiba must be making some explanations to anti-graft agencies. Academic staff in public universities have been on strike since February 14, 2022 whereas the Minister of State for Education, Nwajiba and Minister of Labour Dr. Chris Ngige have expressed their pursuits to succeed their boss President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
Chairperson, ASUU Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Socrates Ebo, in a chat with newsmen in Yenagoa on Tuesday mentioned, ” it’s a disgrace {that a} serving junior minister of education will boldly declare that he’s ravenous university lecturers everywhere in the nation for daring to ask that the education system in the nation be improved.”Speaking further, Ebo sad:
“Truly, you possibly can’t disgrace the shameless. Since when has demanding for the improvement of education within the nation turn out to be an offence? This can be a very unhappy low within the annals of our country. Certainly, charlatans have taken charge of our affairs.
“The minister of education must be educated that lecturers’ duties include: community service, teaching and research. As we speak, lecturers all over the country are engaged in research and community service.
“The strike is a final resort within the try to make a reason-deaf authorities to enhance services in our public universities, pay lecturers a residing wage and cease the frittering away of the nation’s dwindling sources by means of IPPIS. What a part of this demand is crime?
“The minister who’s placing up a present of pretending to aim to guide the nation ought to relatively inform Nigerians how he got here by a whooping sum of N100m to buy his occasion’s nomination type when his legit wage is lower than 1,000,000 naira in a month.
“If this have been a severe nation, he must be making some explanations to ICPC and EFCC by now. Sadly, we’re in a season of absurdities. Those that beforehand declared that no severe authorities would ever permit lecturers to go on strike are actually not solely forcing lecturers into strike however are additionally ravenous them on prime of that. What an irony of historical past! It’s nicely with Nigeria!”
