Ajaero Urges ASUU Not To Relent In Her Struggle For Better Education landscape In Nigeria
By The9jaTREND
National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, on Friday urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) not to relent in her struggle for a better education landscape across public universities in the country.
He stated this while delivering an address at the 23rd National Delegates Conference of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held at the University of Benin main campus in Ugbowo, Benin City.
Ajaero, represented by the National Deputy President of the NLC, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, said that the struggle of the union “is not just for bread and butter but for the soul of our nation.”
Going further, he described ASUU as a beacon, saying, “Your fight for the 2009 agreement is not just a fight for lecturers. It’s a fight for the future of Nigeria’s intellectual sovereignty. It’s a civic responsibility that you approached gallantly.
“We applaud your doggedness. Your refusal to let the flames of the struggle to be extinguished by the cold wind of state indifference.
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“The recent victory of 40 million is a testimony to your resilience. But we must ask, has this money left the coffers of power or is it another audio allocation? A mirage in the dessert of broken promises?
“Let us not celebrate until every kobo touches the hands of the workers who earned it.”
In his remark, Professor Attahiru Jega, a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a past President of ASUU said: “Education is no doubt one of the key institutions in/of any nation.”
He noted that the struggles to improve education, to protect and expand educational opportunities, provide quality education, and protect as well as defend the interest of workers in academic institutions, are in many fundamental respects, struggles for nation building.
“In these struggles ASUU has made many sacrifices, its members have suffered harassment, intimidation, deprivation of rights and freedoms, it has been abused, pilloried, accused of subversion, branded ‘too radical’.”
The conference which is a three day event, will come to an end on Sunday, May 11th, 2025, with the election of a new ASUU President at the ongoing delegates conference in Benin.
