Says strike altruistic, will make govt to be responsible
The Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, alleged that the Federal Government “undertakers of privatisation” was ready to take over public universities from the reach of the children of the masses.

The ASUU, in a statement signed by its Zonal Co-ordinator, Prof. Oyebamiji Oyegoke, said that unless Nigerians join the union in the struggle to deliver public-funded universities to the children of the masses, agents of privatisation of public institutions have concluded plans to deny the common man access to qualitative education and make them serve their children learning in foreign universities.

“What is unveiling before us is deceit and readiness to bring university education to its kneel after which the undertakers of privatisation will take over; no wonder the increasing number of private universities and polytechnics against the depreciating and fastly decaying number of same in public institutions.”

The Ibadan ASUU zonal co-ordinator maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari is leaving a legacy of tragic epigram on education in Nigeria, saying: “It is a sad commentary that a government, which was brought into power by a popular mandate of the Nigerian masses, has turned full cycle against a key agent of development like the education sector. We are pained as a union to observe this government, which is on its way out, keeps a date with history as it struggles to scribble a tragic epigram on the education sector. What a legacy to leave!”