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    Strike: National PTA Seeks FG, ASUU, Parents Meeting

    Strike: National PTA Seeks FG, ASUU, Parents Meeting

    The National Association of Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has requested the Federal Government to set a three-party meeting involving the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), NAPTAN, and the government in a bid to find a solution to the issue of the striking lecturers.

    The federal government had previously urged parents' associations to plead with ASUU to put an end to the strike, maintaining that it did not have the funds to meet the demands of the union.

    Reacting to the government's request, NAPTAN President Haruna Danjuma, in an interview with Punch on Sunday faulted the appeal, saying the ASUU directed its demands to the government and not to the Parents-Teachers Associations (PTA).

    “If the government is saying parents should meet with ASUU, over what? ASUU didn’t direct their requests to PTA; they directed their demands to the government, their employer.

    "FG has been meeting with ASUU they know what ASUU wants; we also know what ASUU wants through what we read.

    “Let the government look into the demands, it is then the parents can say ‘ASUU, please consider the FG.’ I don’t think it is right for NAPTAN to meet with ASUU just like that," he said.

    Danjuma stated that the association was tired of pleading with ASUU but is ready to meet with ASUU and the government.

    “We have been begging ASUU, we are not begging them again. But If the government says ‘PTA, NAPTAN, ASUU come,’ then we are ready.

    "The government should organise a meeting with the parent bodies of public and private schools, and basic and higher institutions, let government arrange for a tripartite meeting.

    "We will go there and say something; after all, they are our children.  If it requires us to kneel down and beg the government and ASUU to arrive at something, we are ready to do that and I appeal to the government and ASUU to arrive at something,” he added.

    The strike by members of ASUU has been ongoing for about six months. Several individuals, associations, unions and political parties including NAPTAN have called on the government to meet the demands of the union and resolve the problem. 

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