“We don’t believe in fuel subsidy. There is no subsidy in this country…Sell it to your people at the Nigerian rate and not in dollars.”
The factional unions are National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) and the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA).
The president said he was pained by the recurring disruption to the nation’s tertiary education system.
“If we accept what ASUU is saying, it will create room for everyone to be asking for their own payment platform; the military is on IPPIS and health workers.”
He blamed the president for not dealing with the “political aspect of Academic Staff Union (ASUU).”
The union frowned on the federal government’s procurement of a court order forcing lecturers to return to class.
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria ordered ASUU not to take part in further strike, pending the determination of the substantive suit.
“We are hopeful that Mr President will buy into the agreement, and with that, this matter will be speedily brought to a close.”
Adamu Bargo, a spokesman for KASU described Mr Osodeke’s comments as “irresponsible, unguarded, misleading and derogatory”.
It’s cruel to casually dismiss the untoward consequences that the strike has had on students and their families who happen to come from the lower end of the Nigerian social scale.
