Tango between ASUU, FG Puts our Future in Jeopardy – Students

Any hope of a thaw between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and Federal Government was dampened with a further three months strike extension by the Union.

Stung by the persisting stalemate, residents of Ogun State expressed their worries, describing the situation as a grave danger to the sustenance of tertiary education in the country. 

A former chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Ogun State chapter, Mr Tomiwa Bamgbose accused both the government and ASUU of insensitivity to the plight of the students, maintaining that the youths had become victims of the industrial crisis. 

When two elephants tango it is the grass that suffers, students who are most affected by the stalemate, described the development as devastating leaving them vulnerable to crime and putting their future in jeopardy. 

In separate remarks, two lecturers, Professor Lai Osho and Dr Soji Fajenyo laid the blame for the strike extension to the Federal Government’s failure to implement the agreement entered into with the union, calling on the need for government to do the needful. 

The lecturers appealed to both ASUU and representatives of the Federal Government to urgently return to the dialogue table to resolve the issue.

Olajumoke Idowu