Universities’ standards falling; honour agreement with ASUU, Reps tell Buhari
The House of Representatives has asked the Muhammadu Buhari regime to honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The legislators made the call in a resolution that followed the adoption of a motion by Dozie Nwankwo, (APGA-Anambra) on the floor of the house on Tuesday in Abuja.
The house urged the Ministry of Labour and Employment as well as ASUU to adhere to the clauses and provisions of their previous Memorandum of Understanding and the Memorandum of Action.
According to the lawmakers, it is in the interest of Nigerian students and the education sector for the warning strike to end.
In the motion, Mr Nwankwo stressed that ASUU’s strike had in the past caused corporate pain to students and parents alike, adding that it had disrupted the academic calendar and impacted negatively on the teaching staff.
Mr Nwankwo decried the depreciating academic standards of Nigeria’s public universities as a result of incessant strikes by ASUU.
He noted that Nigeria was losing revenue through Nigerian students who school abroad and the standards of Nigerian universities can be raised to those of the best universities in Africa and the world.
ASUU on February 14, embarked on a warning strike for “breach of the agreement between the union and the federal government.”
(NAN)
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