From Vanguard...
Protesting traders, under the aegis
of National Market Women Association, Monday, stormed the National Assembly,
demanding that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, call off its
more than three months old strike.
The protesters, who had been at the
Ministry of Education and Office of the Head of Service, arrived the Assembly
complex at 11.30a.m.
President-General of the group, Mrs
Felicia Sani, who led the more than 200 protesting women, said: “We are tired
of seeing our children at home. We want our children back in school. Enough of
this cheap blackmail.
“We all know what they do with our
year-one daughters in the university. We equally know that they sell handouts
and handbooks.
“Is this not worse than corruption
of the highest order?”
On FG/ASUU agreement
Asked why she did not criticise the
Federal Government for failing to reach an agreement with ASUU, Mrs Sani said:
“Which agreement? How do you expect lecturers in state universities to earn
same salaries as Federal ones? That is impossible.
“We are not educated, but you do
not expect a hotel in my village to cost same price as a hotel in Abuja.
“They are located in different
places. So how can a state university lecturer earn same salary with his
federal counterpart?
“We are begging them for the last
time. If we come out again we may have to chase them out of this country and
replace them with so many jobless Nigerians.”
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