ASUU Seeks Student Unions Support, Sends Strong Warning to FG

Cursory : The Academic Staff Union of Universities have said that they would not stand with the government on the plan to introduce education loans. The union through its national president said the education loan system has failed in many countries across the world and should not be adopted by Nigeria. The union, also urged students unions in Nigerian institution to trow their support for them against FG’s plans.

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has opposed a proposal by the Federal Government to introduce education loans. Osodeke in a statement said the proposed education loans have already proven to be a failure in Nigeria and some other countries where it was introduced.

Issued shortly after ASUU’s national executive council meeting which took place at the University of Calabar, the statement said lecturers are appealing to Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to release the withheld salaries of its members. Osodeke also said that the union views such as casualisation with the payment of salaries to some of its members in the month of October based on pro-rata.

The statement read in part:

“The union is disturbed by the surreptitious moves by the government to price university education beyond the reach of the poor Nigerian students and their parents through the introduction of various charges.”

The union also called on all the student bodies across various institutions to rise up to the current situation with a view to ending the calamity which has befallen the nation’s education sector.

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