The ASUU President, University of Lagos Chapter, Dele Ashiru has revealed the reason why the Academic Staff Union of Universities have decided to embark on a two-week warning strike listing a plethora of outstanding challenges and failed promises.
Touching on one of the major issues, which is the IPPIS, Dele Ashiru explains that the IPPIS scheme not only erodes the autonomy of the University System, but fails to address the peculiarities of the University system and also violates laws in Federal Universities in Nigeria, and also believes it is a front to defraud the system.
The UNILAG ASUU President also shed some light on the 2009 MoU signed, a follow up to which the President was met with in 2019 where things like Visitation Panels were supposed to be set up to address the decadence within the education sector, the promised 1 trillion supposed to be allocated to the sector has failed to materialise as only President Goodluck’s administration released 200 billion and a host of other challenges.
When asked if the students were considered before embarking on the action, he revealed that the union should not be held responsible for the disruption in the learning of students in the system and blame should be channelled in the right direction.
Watch the video for further details on what ASUU plans to do once the two weeks Warning Strike period is over.
