The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus
Keyamo has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is on strike
due to an agreement reached with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led
government in 2009.
Keyamo said Nigerians should not blame the APC-led
government for the ongoing strike by ASUU.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson accused
the PDP government of being irresponsible over its inability to fulfil the
agreement signed with ASUU in 2009.
He claimed that between 1999 and 2015 when the PDP handed
over to the ruling APC, ASUU was on strike 12 times, amounting to 900 days.
“The ASUU thing you are talking about. What is the problem
of ASUU now? It’s the 2009 agreement signed by the PDP government. They signed
agreements with ASUU that they couldn’t fulfil. We had to inherit those
agreements and now are struggling to renegotiate those agreements.
“Imagine how irresponsible a government can be when they
went into agreements with ASUU and signed conditions that they couldn’t fulfil
and that is why ASUU is on strike, so let us tell Nigerians that ASUU is not on
strike because APC signed an agreement with them. It was the PDP that signed
the agreement.
“We are not shifting blame; we are going to tackle the
problem. Between 1999 and 2015 when they handed over to the APC, ASUU was on
strike 12 times. I have the statistics amounting to 900 days,” he told Trust
tv.
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com