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A pro-labour civil coalition, the Joint Action Front (JAF), yesterday urged Nigerians to be partakers of a mass rally it is planning to coerce the Federal Government to release funds for the implementation of the agreement it reached with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Nation reports that JAF’s secretary, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, addressing reporters in Abeokuta said the government is to blame for the current crisis in the education sector and that the way forward is compelling FG to do the right thing through a “mass action”
“The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), just last week, had a warning strike. All these have implication for disruption of the academic calendars, falling standards of education at all levels, a high level of general insecurity and a bleak future for the current generation and the Nigerian child.”
“Students from the universities have been at home since July 1 because of the ASUU strike. For three months, polytechnic students had their academic calendar disrupted for similar reasons.
“We urge students and workers in formal and informal sectors, parents and pro-people organisations across the country to join the mass mobilisation to save public education.
“Except we mobilise Nigerians to resist the government, to compel the government to bring the money, the government will not budge in its unwillingness or reluctance to fund education sector adequately in Nigeria.”
The rally will hold in Abeokuta on Thursday. Similar protests will later hold in Kano, Aremu said.
The media briefing was attended by representatives of ASUU, students, civil society organisations, among others.
The Nation reports that JAF’s secretary, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, addressing reporters in Abeokuta said the government is to blame for the current crisis in the education sector and that the way forward is compelling FG to do the right thing through a “mass action”
“The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), just last week, had a warning strike. All these have implication for disruption of the academic calendars, falling standards of education at all levels, a high level of general insecurity and a bleak future for the current generation and the Nigerian child.”
“Students from the universities have been at home since July 1 because of the ASUU strike. For three months, polytechnic students had their academic calendar disrupted for similar reasons.
“We urge students and workers in formal and informal sectors, parents and pro-people organisations across the country to join the mass mobilisation to save public education.
“Except we mobilise Nigerians to resist the government, to compel the government to bring the money, the government will not budge in its unwillingness or reluctance to fund education sector adequately in Nigeria.”
The rally will hold in Abeokuta on Thursday. Similar protests will later hold in Kano, Aremu said.
The media briefing was attended by representatives of ASUU, students, civil society organisations, among others.
