Strike: FG'S Disagreement Social Injustice — ASUU Coordinator

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Calabar chapter, has expressed the negligence of the federal government in meeting the terms of its agreement with the union as social injustice. 

The submission was given by the zonal Coordinator of the zone and Senior lecturer in the department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Uyo (UNIUYO) Dr. Aniekan Brown during an interview in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital.

Brown maintained that the federal government has given the image that the union is the reason for the lingering strike when it (the federal government) has been two-faced in finding a solution to the strike.

He added that while the government claimed not to have the N1.1 trillion needed to meet ASUU's, it has borrowed money to settle politics-related matters.

 “And if the government says it cannot borrow N1.1trillion for education, yet that government is borrowing for other things, it is a pointer to where the interest of such a government lies.

“It means some of them are seeing Education as a case of expenditure when essentially Education is a case of investing in the future of the country.

"Since 2017 and 2018 government has been giving itself timelines. But when it matters to them they would quickly do something.