The Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, demanded the immediate resignation of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige for “mismanaging the country’s university education system.”
Chairman of ASUU-TASUED, Dr Rufai Kazeem, made the request while speaking during the rally organized by the branch to sensitise the public on the demands of the union, which the government has failed to meet.
Through a statement titled “Tracing the Recent Trajectory of Government’s Disservice to University Education Through an Attempt to Balkanize ASUU”, Kazeem accused the Federal government of failing in its responsibility of funding education.
He requested that the lecturers should be paid the backlog of salaries the Federal government is owning the academic staff, adding that the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement should be signed.
He said: “The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, should resign their appointments because they have mismanaged the country’s university education system.
“Dr Chris Ngige registered with the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) with a view to creating unhealthy rivalry among academic unions on our university campuses.
“We are genuinely hopeful that our struggle would not go in vain and that someday, Nigeria would have a highly competitive University education system, which would attract students and lecturers from within and outside the country.”