Tension among Students and Parents as they wait ASUU's decision

 

All eyes are on The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the country waits to find out if they will embark on a fresh strike or not.

Since Saturday, the Members of ASUU’s National Executive Council (NEC) have been locked in marathon meetings at the University Of Lagos, Akoka.

They were expected to have the final lap of the meeting by midnight Monday. They promised to address a press conference on Monday (today) to announce the resolutions of the two-day meeting titled, ‘NEC for NEC.’

The anxiety among university students and parents last night over the fear of a union strike was pertinent as they expect the union to likely go on with the strike.

While the sensitization was ongoing, the co-chairmen of the National Inter-religious Council; President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Dr. Samson Ayokunle; and the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar III, visited the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the lack of implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding the government signed with ASUU in 2009 and others.

But ASUU national president, Prof. Emmanuel Oshodeke, and other leaders across the campuses insisted that the Federal Government could not be trusted following its consistent refusal to implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union, leading to the suspension of the 2020 strike action.

Students and Parents await the decision from ASUU, but it seems it would happen sooner than later.