Traders under the aegis of National Market Women
Association, Monday, stormed the National Assembly in
protest, demanding that the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, call off its strike of over 100 days.
The protesters, who had been at the Ministry of
Education and Office of the Head of Service, arrived
the Assembly complex at 11.30a.m.
President-General of the group, Mrs Felicia Sani, who
led the more than 200 protesting women, said: “We
are tired of seeing our children at home. We want our
children back in school. Enough of this cheap blackmail.
“We all know what they do with our year-one
daughters in the university. We equally know that they
sell handouts and handbooks.
“Is this not worse than corruption of the highest
order?”
When asked why she did not criticise the Federal
Government for failing to reach an agreement with
ASUU, Mrs Sani said: “Which agreement? How do you
expect lecturers in state universities to earn same
salaries as Federal ones? That is impossible.
“We are not educated, but you do not expect a hotel
in my village to cost same price as a hotel in Abuja.
“They are located in different places. So how can a
state university lecturer earn same salary with his
federal counterpart?
“We are begging them for the last time. If we come
out again we may have to chase them out of this
country and replace them with so many jobless
Nigerians.”
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