Loading ...THE Senate resumed sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, after a two-month recess and expressed regret over the festering crisis between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, which has paralysed academic activities in the country for over three months.
While lamenting the effect of the strike on Nigerian students, the Senate assured that it would do all it could to bring it to an end.
The spokesman of Senate, Senator Ayogu Eze, in a media briefing at the National Assembly Complex, blamed the crisis on the global financial crisis, adding that a solution must be sought to the crisis to guarantee the future of Nigeria.
Senator Eze informed that the leadership of the Senate, besides the Senate’s Committee on Education, would tackle the issue to make sure the university unions returned to work within the shortest time.
“What has happened is a symptom of the general collapse in the finances of the world, not just Nigeria. You know that the world is still reeling from the effects of the global financial meltdown. I think that some of the things that are happening are symptoms of the meltdown,” he said.
He added that “be that as it may, the Senate is going to lend its voice to ensure that we see how we can bring this strike to an end.”
In another development, the academic and non-academic staff of the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, under the Joint Consultative Council of Staff Unions (JCCSU), have resolved to resign en masse instead of going back to work unless the Federal Government signed the agreement it reached with the ASUU.
Addressing journalists in Umuahia, the state capital, on Tuesday, the chairman of ASUU/JCCSU, George Chima, blamed the government for keeping students at home, saying it was not committed.
“There is no going back. We are behind our respective national executive councils. We will rather resign en masse than betray this national struggle for the sustainability of the university system in Nigeria,” he said.
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