ASUU STRIKE TODAY: ASUU rejects FG promisory note; demands Okojie, NUC’s boss sack. ASUU is insisting on the removal of the NUC Secretary, Professor Julie Okojie, declaring he cannot absolve himself and the commission from the rot in Nigerian universities. The union also insisted on scrapping of the commission. NUC, according to ASUU, has failed to reposition Nigerian universities as shown by the NEEDS assessment report, which was carried out by genuine academics, pointing out that its (NEEDS) report contradicted NUC’s accreditation exercises, which gave ‘controversial’clean bill of health to most universities. 'The NUC boss ought to have resigned through the revelations made in the NEEDS assessment report.' ASUU, in a statement, called on the National Assembly to beam its searchlight on activities of NUC. The union’s position emphasised that its strike is fully on and will not allow itself to be fooled again with ‘promisory notes’ of the FG, which it maintained, had never worked in the past. Okojie had, last Thursday, reportedly absolved the commission of any accreditation fraud, blaming it on ASUU members. Ajiboye, who described the statement credited to the NUC boss as ‘careless’, accused Okojie of allegedly using his cronies, who can do his biddings for accreditation. The union declared, “ASUU cannot be blamed for NUC ‘magomago’ accreditations.Rather than blaming the union, Okojie should take full responsibility for all the fraudulent deeds in NUC, including the work and eat accreditations.NUC knows the kind of academics they select for their ignoble exercises. “All well-meaning Nigerians can see the contrast between Okojie’s ‘packaged accreditation reports’ and a credible job done by ASUU. It has become very clear from the Needs Assessment that Okojie and his cohort of accreditors have fooled this country for too long. Enough they say is enough,” ASUU said. In another report, Message From ASUU President. 'Dear Comrades, as the struggle to save Nigerian University system is being pursued, I’ll like to salute all our members for their resoluteness in ensuring that the 2009 ASUU/Govt Agreement is implemented in accordance with the Roadmap defined by the 2012 MoU. We believe very strongly that the rot and decay in the University System is not only arrestable but also reversible. We believe even more strongly that, the key to turning round the University System lies in the sincere implementation of the Agreement. What govt has so far been doing is no more than a repeat performance of a one-act-play: all the deceptions, propaganda, lies, mischiefs and such other shenanigans were tried by previous Govts, including Military Juntas, but our resolve to save the University System and our Country remained unwaivered. In a third report, Bishops Offer to Mediate between FG, Lecturers. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has offered to mediate in the protracted rift between FG and ASUU over the implementation of the 2009 ASUU/FG agreement between the two parties. The bishops observed that the ongoing rift had crippled the education system in the country, and urged the FG and ASUU to come down from their stern positions and resolve their differences in the interest of the students. President of CBCN, Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama, and the Secretary, Most Reverend Williams Avenga, expressed regret that university students have been made to roam about the streets, following the indefinite strike. “We are disturbed by the crippling effect of the strike. As stakeholders in the education of our youths, we cannot stay aloof. We appeal to FG and ASUU to take the higher ground of mutual exchange and shifting of grounds for the collective responsibility of saving our university education and getting our youths back to the classrooms. “We, the Catholic Bishops willingly offer ourselves as a conference to mediate in order to bring this deadlock to an end and usher in a harmonious, viable and sustainable environment for university learning.” The bishops also lamented the denial of Catholics to acquire land to establish chaplaincy by some university authorities, adding that the action had contributed to the weakening of sound moral in the lives of the youths, who are the future leaders. The clerics called on the FG to foster religious freedom by allocating lands and removing all barriers to acquiring lands for religious worships. The strike is still on.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:54:29 +0000
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