Resign and face farming, ASUU tells education minister

 

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the minister of state for education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba's resignation.

The call was made on Tuesday, October 6, by the lecturers' body on the heels of a statement credited to the junior minister in which he told the striking ASUU members to go to farm if they do not want to agree with terms of their employer.

The minister was reported to have insisted that ASUU cannot dictate how they should be paid to the federal government.

Akinwole stressed that the universities can only reopen if the federal government consider the demand of the lecturers.

He said, "If the Minister of State for Education is interested in farming, he should resign his appointment and stop displaying his cluelessness of the problems in the education sector. We are on a just fight to ensure that those in public offices become responsive and responsible to the masses they swore to serve. They must fund public education."