Buhari has hidden agenda for schooling

The Chairman, Educational Workers Union of Universities, Ekiti State College, Ado Ekiti Chapter, Dr Kayode Arogundade, on Wednesday, accused the President, Main Basic Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of nursing hidden destructive agenda for schooling.

Arogundade, who additionally named the ministers of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige and Training, Adamu Adamu, as accomplices, stated that Nigerians have been ready for the agenda to hatch, calling on the citizenry to drive the Federal Authorities to do the needful for the schooling sector and college lecturers to avert one other spherical of motion.

The ASUU chairman spoke in Ado Ekiti throughout a protest by ASUU-EKSU members to specific displeasure with the Federal Authorities’s “no-work-no-pay coverage and fee of half wage to school lecturers.”

Amongst inscriptions on the placards of the protesting ASUU-EKSU members are “Solely a legal will assist half wage and IPPIS”, “Lecturers educate the nation, however Buhari cheats the nation”, and “ASUU-EKSU says authorities in any respect ranges ought to prioritise funding of schooling”.

Arogundade stated, “We’re expressing our displeasure in regards to the Federal Authorities’s draconian determination of no-work-no-pay launched by Ngige and sanctioned by the FG. Our curiosity is that we’re not informal employees, no person is paying us wages, what we’re getting is salaries”.

In line with him, it’s legal for anyone to consider imposing no-work-no-pay to the extent of paying half wage as a result of folks resolve to agitate for his or her rights and calls for.

He stated, “They don’t need the Nigerian instructional system to flourish. The academic system as we speak is struggling by the hands of our leaders. Overseas universities at the moment are feeding fats on us. You possibly can think about how a lot dad and mom are in search of annually to sponsor their wards to international universities.

“I’m of the opinion that Ngige, Adamu and Buhari have an agenda that isn’t identified to Nigerians, we’re simply ready patiently to see when they are going to hatch that agenda. In the event that they don’t have agenda, the three of them can’t sleep and be going through the identical route that results in nowhere. I do know the agenda can’t be within the basic curiosity of Nigerians.

“Simply Tuesday, President Buhari signed the brand new wage for the Judiciary, what’s it that the educational workers are asking for? It’s a residing wage, he has signed for others, however he has refused to signal for educational workers. Then the query is – Is it that there’s something that the Judiciary is doing for him that the educational workers will not be doing?

“Our understanding is that if they’ve their youngsters round right here, they won’t be treating Nigerian universities and lecturers this manner. The one factor they’re doing is that they wish to pitch us towards the scholars in a method that we get disillusioned and the scholars will likely be discouraged within the instructional system.

“We’re interesting to all Nigerians to talk to the Federal Authorities that they need to not anticipate us to start out one other spherical of motion. We’re getting used to it, you haven’t paid us for eight months this yr, we’re not useless, we’re nonetheless alive, so authorities mustn’t push us to a state whereby we grow to be so adamant to the extent that we don’t care no matter occurs,” he stated.