The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has said the refusal of the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has proven that it is untrustworthy and therefore cannot be trusted to keep its word on investing savings from the removal of fuel subsidy on infrastructure.
The National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, said yesterday that the avoidable strike action by the university teachers is as a result of the predilection of the ruling PDP-led Federal Government not to be accountable to the Nigerian people.
He said, “As a people, we must enforce the constitutionally enshrined power by putting the right pressure on the government to accede to the demands of ASUU in the interest of elevating the standards of the nation’s university system.
“The Minister of Education recently tried to justify the Federal Government’s show of irresponsibility in reneging on the agreement, by saying that It would cost the government over N100billion to meet the demands of the lecturers.”
Continuing, Fashakin said: “She further asserted that ‘the nation does not have such amount.’ It is instructive to note that the preponderance of the University Teachers’ demands was for the improvement in the decrepit infrastructure in the nation’s citadels of higher learning.”