As students in government owned institutions continue to wallow in an ocean of indefinite break, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has hinted the public that the ongoing nationwide strike may be extended due to the Government’s inability to accept the union’s requests.
The Union through its President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in an exclusive interview with THE WHISTLER at the weekend.
Osodeke said, if at the end of its two months strike the government has not made any concrete steps to address their demands, the Union would meet and decide if they should commence a 16-week roll-over strike. The ongoing strike which began on February 14 is now in its seventh week.
Osodeke said, “At the end of these two months, we will meet, evaluate the situation and if the government has not done anything, my congress will also advise that we should roll over the strike again. Maybe for 16 weeks.”
According to him, the government does not care about the plight of the Nigerian students or their parents because people in the government don’t send their children to schools in the country.
“This is what we’ve been saying since the beginning. These people don’t have any feelings for the Nigerian students or their parents, and they have no feelings for the system just because their children are not here.
“If their children were students here, they would’ve taken action long ago, solved the problem, and then schools resume. They have just made it clear now that they don’t care about these children,” he explained.
The ASUU President stressed that the Federal Government has made no attempt to meet with them to negotiate terms on how to end the ongoing strike.
“There has been no meeting to resolve the issue between ASUU and the FG. They’ve not reached out, we are still waiting for them
