ASUU Strike-NUT Vows To Shut Primary, Secondary Schools Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) through its leadership has vowed to ground both primary and secondary schools in the country if the Federal Government fails to resolve its feud with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as soon as possible. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, on Thursday, Michael Olukoya, the NUT president said the solidarity strike would be total, as teachers across the country were being mobilised. He said though primary and secondary schools had just resumed from vacation, NUT would not hesitate to send the children back home until the Federal Government honoured the agreement reached with the lecturers. He said this was part of the resolution of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the union on Thursday, called to deliberate on the state of the nation and to ready arrangements for the celebration of the forthcoming 2013 World Teachers Day holding on October 5. The teachers also demanded, among other things, that the National Assembly should, in the process of the ongoing constitution review, remove primary education away from the ambit of local governments in Nigeria. “Both primary and secondary schools will be shut in totality if the Federal Government does not or continue to fail to respect the agreement it entered with ASUU. “We cannot continue to claim that we are giant in Africa when our children leave to Cotonou that is not up to Oyo State to receive university education. “At this point, we wish to register our strong solidarity and sympathy with our professional brothers in the universities, in their struggle not just for improved condition of service but for the return of quality education in the universities through appropriate funding and provision of infrastructural facilities. “We also sympathise with our students in these universities who are at the receiving end of this unending conflict of two titans — ASUU and Federal Government. “The current struggle of ASUU is most nationalistic, patriotic and self-sacrificing. We commend our university teachers for remaining solid and unmovable in the face of all threats,” he said. Olukoya equally called on the Federal Government to demonstrate responsiveness and similar patriotism by granting the demands of ASUU which, he said, were “reasonable, just and fair.”
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:51:58 +0000
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