ASUU Strike: AAUA Students Beg Management To Back Out
Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko in Ondo State have begged the institution’s management to pull out of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Recall that the ASUU embarked on a nationwide strike on February 14, 2022, to clamour for implementing the 2009 agreement between them and the Federal Government.
The students who condemned the five-month-long strike in an interview with CAMPUS REPORTER implored AAUA management to consider the students’ future by pulling out of the industrial action.
The President of the Sociology Department, Theophilus Tobiloba, stated that the only benefits enjoyed by the institution from the Union are the TETFUND buildings, its intervention, academic sponsors for lecturers, and grants, among others, asked the institution to take a stand of standing alone.
Tobiloba urged AAUA management to adapt the speed timing in their sessions after backing out of the strike school resumes and added that the school calendar had been bastardised.
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Another student, Leo Omotayo, revealed that state universities have no business with national agitation (ASUU strike) as one of the forms that are holding the union back is UTAS, noting that most lecturers from the state are not even benefitting from the union.
Leo maintained that the ASUU strike had caused damage to students’ futures.
“The Federal Government only pays the Federal Institution while the state chapters are paid by the state government in their respective state.
“The state government is not responsive enough to call back the lecturers because they did not pay them either. The state government should be charged with the responsibility of paying as at when dues for the educational sector.”
In the same vein, Adekunle Folorunso said he felt disappointed in the system because AAUA is a state university, and this should not be happening.
He further stated that sanity should be restored to the realm of educational integrity of Adekunle Ajasin University, saying the school was among the best in Nigeria during Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s era.
Corroborating Adekunle, Phillip Anjorin, a 400-level student of Mass Communication, noted that he did not expect the strike to take long to reconsider as students were suffering the brunt of the crisis, which was contributing to societal decadence.
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