Some university students on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities to consider their future and resume to work in their various institutions.
Some of the students, who spoke with the News Agency of
Nigeria in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the
suspension of the prolonged strike.
The students said they were tired and frustrated due to the
time wasted without any academic achievement.
They said the strike would make them remain in the
university more than it was necessary.
ASUU has been on strike since March 2020 over demands for
more funding for public universities and renegotiation of the 2009 FG/ASUU
agreement.
Others are outstanding earned academic allowances, the
proliferation of universities by state governments, and the constitution of
Visitation Panels to Federal Universities.
A law student at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka,
Augustine Azubike, said he was appealing to the university lecturers to
consider the future of the students and to return to work.
Azubike added that the incessant strike embarked upon by the
lecturers was affecting the quality of university education in the country.
Another university student, Ann Chukwu, of Linguistic
Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka expressed worry over the lingering
strike, adding that her private business, located within the university, had
been static since the strike started.
“My business, which is within the university premises has
been static since the lecturers embarked on strike and the business has been
the source of income for my school and accommodation fees,” Ude lamented.
Daniel Onyekachukwu, a mechanical engineering student, from
UNN, said the incessant strikes by public universities’ workers had altered the
academic calendar and the students’ time of graduation.
“Our lecturers and government should consider students from
poor families, whose parents are not financially buoyant enough to send their
children and wards to private and foreign universities,” Onyekachukwu appealed.
Joe Ezike of the Department of Psychology, Nnamdi Azikiwe
University, Awka said he was unhappy over the strike as his rent had expired.
“My anger over the strike is that the money I paid for my
off-campus accommodation before the strike has expired without proper use of
the room,” Ezike complained.
(NAN)
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