ASUU: ‘We’ll shut down Nigeria – Labour
Labour activist and General Secretary,
National Union of Electricity Employees,
NUEE, Joe Ajaero has given the Federal
Government one week to resolve its
differences with the Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU) or cripple the
country with the mother-of-all-strikes.
Ajaero who was speaking during the
opening of a training workshop organized
for labour leaders in Enugu, threatened to
ally with other unions across the country to
join ASUU on a solidarity stike if the
impasse persists.
He said: “If ASUU issue is not addressed,
we will shut this country alongside other
unions. We will ally with other unions and
make sure that nothing works in this
country.”
Ajaero said government was being
insensitive to the plight of Nigerian
students because the children of the rich
are studying outside the country.
“This is not a strike based on demand, it’s
based on agreement. As government, you
must honour your agreement. Here, there’s
no social security, the price of food is high,
the same goes for electricity tariff. We are
going to join our children to stay at home
and let them run the system,” he
threatened.
The labour leader said that the time has
come to bar public office holders form
sending their children to schools abroad or
travel overseas for free treatment, noting
that not until then, will government take
the various institutions serious and put
things the way they should be.
Ajaero however, reassured electricity
workers that the union would ensure that
everybody receive their entitlements before
the final handover to private investors and
urged them to make good and judicious
use of the money and not go on spending
spree.
“They are playing politics with us but all we
have told them is to give us our
entitlements and we will handover
tomorrow. They said before the end of this
week; if we don’t see evidence of payment,
we won’t handover.”
According to him, the workshop is to
prepare them for better management of the
funds through skill acquisitions and
entrepreneurial skills and urged them to
take the workshop serious.
Labour activist and General Secretary,
National Union of Electricity Employees,
NUEE, Joe Ajaero has given the Federal
Government one week to resolve its
differences with the Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU) or cripple the
country with the mother-of-all-strikes.
Ajaero who was speaking during the
opening of a training workshop organized
for labour leaders in Enugu, threatened to
ally with other unions across the country to
join ASUU on a solidarity stike if the
impasse persists.
He said: “If ASUU issue is not addressed,
we will shut this country alongside other
unions. We will ally with other unions and
make sure that nothing works in this
country.”
Ajaero said government was being
insensitive to the plight of Nigerian
students because the children of the rich
are studying outside the country.
“This is not a strike based on demand, it’s
based on agreement. As government, you
must honour your agreement. Here, there’s
no social security, the price of food is high,
the same goes for electricity tariff. We are
going to join our children to stay at home
and let them run the system,” he
threatened.
The labour leader said that the time has
come to bar public office holders form
sending their children to schools abroad or
travel overseas for free treatment, noting
that not until then, will government take
the various institutions serious and put
things the way they should be.
Ajaero however, reassured electricity
workers that the union would ensure that
everybody receive their entitlements before
the final handover to private investors and
urged them to make good and judicious
use of the money and not go on spending
spree.
“They are playing politics with us but all we
have told them is to give us our
entitlements and we will handover
tomorrow. They said before the end of this
week; if we don’t see evidence of payment,
we won’t handover.”
According to him, the workshop is to
prepare them for better management of the
funds through skill acquisitions and
entrepreneurial skills and urged them to
take the workshop serious.
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