Hmmm Herbalists back ASUU as students kick

Students have called on the Academic Staff
Union of Universities not to betray them in the
on-going strike. They said they would not like
a situation when the strike would be called off
without achieving anything.
This came as herbalists in Oyo State pledged
their support for ASUU.
According to the President of the herbalists in
the state, Dr. Arunoyemi Asanlaye, “we are in
support of ASUU on the on-going strike”.
The students in large number at a town hall
meeting, tagged, Save Public Education
Campaign, which was organised by ASUU, UI
chapter at the Trenchard Hall, University of
Ibadan Monday showed their displeasure at the
seeming docility and indifference of the Nigeria
Labour Congress calling on the labour union to
embark on solidarity strike to force government
to respond to ASUU demands.
Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, Chairman, ASUU UI
chapter, said the union would use any method
to actualize their demands clarified that the
struggle was not about the salaries of lecturers
but the funding of education in the country.
Ajiboye said, “We are using so many methods.
We cannot tell you when to move to Bodija
Market. That is part of our strategies.
Instead of begging ASUU, the government
should declare a state of emergency in the
education sector”.
Responding to the call by the students, Mr.
Bashir Olanrewaju, NLC Chairman in Oyo State,
said, “By Wednesday, we will come out with a
more proactive stance on the strike. Though,
students have called on us to go on strike, we
will not go on strike now. We will only mediate.
If an affiliate has a problem, joining it in strike
will collapse the whole system.
We have never been docile about the incident”.
Prof. Remi Raji, lecturer at the Faculty of Arts,
University of Ibadan, said, ”Government should
look at the NEEDS Assessment report. It is
almost a year now that the 169
recommendations had been made and nothing
has been done.
Salary of lecturers is just one of the nine
demands of ASUU”.