Take ASUU to court – Education minister, Adamu tells students

The Federal Government has told students of Nigeria to institute a legal action against the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has told the students to drag university lecturers to court over the prolonged industrial strike.

Adamu made this revelation during a press briefing at the Presidential Villa on Thursday.

He has lamented that students are the worst hit by the ASUU strike.

The minister has confessed that the industrial strike has also affected the economy of the country.

He said: “We are all hit by this strike action, perhaps because students have to spend an extra one year or two, you can say, they are worst hit.

“If you had the chance, or the capacity to measure the effect of that on the economy, the economy is also a victim, parents are also victims.

“Who do you assume will compensate students? The federal government? Probably you should take the leaders of strike unions to court to pay them, probably the court will award damages and then, we’ll see how they pay.”

MOUTHPIECE NGR observes that the union of university lecturers has been on strike since February 2022 over the Federal Government’s refusal meet a 2009 agreement.

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