We Won't Allow Govt to Kill Public Varsities

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Friday, said it would not fold its hands and watch federal and state governments kill public universities. The union asked parents, students and other stakeholders to direct their grievances against the ongoing one-week strike to the Federal Government.

Speaking through its chapter in the Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), ASUU insisted that the industrial action was for the best interest of development of tertiary education in the country. Addressing a press conference at the school’s auditorium, the NDU chapter Chairman of ASUU, Dr. Stanley Ogoun, said the union would resist any attempt by politicians, who had started the business of running private universities, to kill public institutions. He said the docility of stakeholders was the reason why state governments and politicians destroyed primary and secondary schools.