ASUU Strike Update: Osun NLC supports strike, wants LAUTECH crisis resolved

Osun NLC backs ASUU Strike, says its a means to improve educational standard.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Osun Council, on Thursday, expressed support for the ongoing nationwide strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

According to the union, the industrial action is aimed at restoring quality and standard education in the country.

In a press release issued and signed by the state Chairman of the Congress, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, and Secretary, Mr. Rufus Adeyemi, “ASUU’s strike was necessitated by the breach of 2009/2013 agreement.

The statement included that “The strike is a worthwhile struggle geared toward the restoration of quality and standard in the public education sector of the country.

“We opine that it will be counterproductive for the government to play politics with a crucial sector that has potential to take the nation out of the wood in the face of unenviable development indices of the nation.

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“It must be noted that previous strikes action of this nature when not urgently resolved had led to brain drain which has impacted negatively on the sector.”

The congress expressed hope that the government of Osun and Oyo states would take proactive measures to end, the lingering industrial crisis that has brought Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) to its knees.

The Congress also stated that it hoped the Federal Government would, as a matter of utmost urgency, fulfill its own part of the agreement reached with ASUU in order to avoid further drifting of the education sector and give room for the various institutions to re-open for academic activities.