Why would everyone attack ASUU?
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has yet again extended its six-month-old strike indefinitely.
This was disclosed on Monday morning after the National Executive Council meeting held at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja.
Meanwhile, the committee of Pro Chancellors of State-owned Universities (Copsun), set up with the aim of setting the records straight, has responded to the statement uttered by the ASUU President, referring to them as "irrelevant quacks".
This was done in a press release issued on Monday, August 29th, through the committee's secretary, Marcus Awobifa.
The statement was interpreted by the committee as tendentious and ill-conceived, and it was further described as contemptuous and unbecoming for the President of ASUU to state that these esteemed individuals preside over quack and insignificant universities.
They interpreted the unions' approach to the issue of funding tertiary education in a modern and globalized world as archaic, antiquated and impracticable worldwide and further appealed to the ASUU President to realize that membership is voluntary.
Furthermore, state universities cannot be coerced into implementing agreements reached between the federal government and their employees in universities to which they are not parties.
According to the report, some state universities, which were against ASUU continuing the strike, have backed out of the industrial action and resumed academic activities fully.