ASUU Strike: NLC Leads Day 2 Protest In Abuja
The Nigeria Labour Congress – NLC, and its affiliate unions have continued their solidarity protest in Abuja. This is in support of the five-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, and the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, among others are currently leading the Day 2 protest in solidarity with ASUU in Abuja.
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The unions took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against the failure of the Federal Government to resolve the five-month strike by ASUU after the got no suitable response from the Federal Government.
The NLC said the money the two major political parties – the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party – generated from the sale of forms to aspirants could address ASUU’s demands.
The university lecturers shut down public institutions on February 14 over the inability of the Federal Government to implement meet the agreements it made with ASUU in 2009 as well as the refusal of the current administration to exempt lecturers from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
ASUU had also asked the government to increase funding of tertiary institutions and pay outstanding allowances.
According to The Punch, the protesters planned to march down to the National Assembly where the NLC president would deliver a message from the labour unions to lawmakers.
