ASUU Replies Buhari Says Enough Can’t Be Enough

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) replies Buhari said enough can’t be enough until the President moves to reposition the decaying public university education in the country.

The Union also ur urged President Muhammadu Buhari to meet with the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led Committee on negotiation, following his latest ‘enough is enough’ comments.

ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osekede, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.

Recall that the Briggs committee, which was set up by the Federal Government on June 7, is renegotiating the 2009 Agreement with ASUU and will submit its report to the Education Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu in three months.

Buhari had, in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, saying, “truly, enough is enough for keeping students at home.’’

He spoke while receiving governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), legislators and political leaders at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, on Monday.

Reacting to the development, Osedeke said: “I do not understand why Mr President said that ‘enough is enough’, when we are not the one delaying the students at home.

“For the records, Mr President, enough will not be enough in the struggle to reposition the public university education in Nigeria under this present administration and beyond as long as the Nigerian public universities are reduced to a glorified secondary school for the production of poor quality and globally uncompetitive, rejected and unemployable graduates and Nigerian academics remain one of the poorest paid scholars not only in Africa but the world.” the statement reads in part.

(NAN)