Our members are now taxi drivers, farmers to make ends meet – ASUU Claims

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has claimed that their members are now taxi drivers, farmers in other to feed themselves and their families.

In a report by Vanguard News, the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Lagos Zone, Adelaja Odukoya said this while addressing newsmen at the end of the zonal meeting of the union.

While reading from the statement titled: “Our pay cannot take us home: End poverty-wage now”, Odukoya said, “We have always insisted that the cost of governance in this country is too high and nobody is doing anything about it and to increase the salary of lecturers is now a problem for the government”.

“This is happening against the background of the public admission by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan only yesterday that a Senator earns N1.5 million while a member of the House of Representatives earns N1.3m per month”.

“It will shock you to know that for most of us outside Lagos, we engage in farming to survive, while some of us in Lagos engage in ‘kabukabu’ (taxi driving) and other menial jobs because our salary can no longer take us home”.

“Regrettably, with 9 days to the one year anniversary of our suspension of our last strike and signing of the 2020 MoA (Memorandum of Actions), the government has adamantly and most shamefully refused, failed and neglected to do what was freely agreed to between us”.

“It is clear that the federal government by its lamentable actions and condemnable inactions is adding fuel to an already combustible situation.”

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