The students of
Olabisi Onabanjo University{OOU}, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday
called for the scrapping of the university’s Academic Staff Union of
Universities {ASUU}, accusing the lecturers of intransigence on their
prolonged strike.
Addressing a press
conference in Abeokuta, the state capital, Rufai Uthman, the students
union president, in company of other executives of the union, said,
“Lecturers should henceforth be treated on individual basis; the union
should not be operational anymore in the interest of the innocent
students and academic activities.”
While calling on
the striking lecturers to consider the students’ plight and return to
the classrooms, the students appealed to the lecturers to also shift
ground on their insistence in getting all outstanding salaries before
resuming.
Mr. Uthman added that, “we are not saying that they should not get
their money, but not to the detriment of students.” He claimed that
about 116 lecturers out of an estimated 350 have signified their
intention to return to work, appealing to their colleagues to do the
same. Similarly, the students body called on the state government to
make the lecturers happy by paying what the authority owed them.
