By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) on Monday accused the President Muhammudu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of encouraging injustice in Nigeria educational system.
Chairman of the union at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (I.A.R&T) of the Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile-Ife ,Comrade Oladeinde Olufemi made the accusation while speaking during a protest organised by striking members of the three non academic staff unions of the research institute.
He stressed that the APC led government was encouraging injustice by allegedly allowing members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to have N18 billion out of the N23 billion Earned Allowance.
The NASU Chairman lamented that the recent conduct of examinations by some federal universities in the country while members of three non academic staff unions were on strike has further exposed the Nigerian university system to ridicule.
Comrade Oladeinde maintained that it was unfortunate that examinations were conducted in some of the federal universities without students having practicals, describing such act of a major setback to the country’s university education.
“Members of ASUU are doing by conducting examination without the involvement of non academic staff, is that they are telling us that they can run the Nigerian university system alone.”he said
He also disclosed that the national leadership of the Joint Action Council (JAC) of the three striking unions has directed that non academic staff in account departments of various federal universities and research institutes should henceforth stop participating in preparation of salaries until the industrial crisis is resolved.
“If the Academic staff are sure that they can run the university system alone, let them prepare and pay their own monthly salaries. The strike will not be called off until the injustice is corrected.”
Also speaking, SSANU Chairman Comrade Shadrack Oluranti and Comrade Wale Olopade, Chairman of NAAT while speaking during the protest condemned the federal government for its roles in the industrial crisis rocking the nation’s university system.
Members of NASU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) had on December 4, 2017 embarked on indefinite strike over the perceived injustice in the sharing formula of the Earned Allowance.
