ASUU Strike: We Are Ready To Help End Strike – Reps

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, on Thursday, disclosed that the House was ready to amend any portion of the nation's law or grant any request of appropriations from the executive arm of government to accommodate the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) so as to end the lingering strike by the union.

The speaker, who stated this after the presentation of the investigative report to the House by the House Committee on Education, however advised all concerned parties in the strike to reconsider their positions in the interest of the students and the future of education in the country.

The speaker said: "Once again, we call on ASUU and the Federal Government, in this case the executive arm of government to please, quickly bring the matter to an end and resolve it. And if there is any need for further appropriations to be made or any law to be amended to meet any of these conditions, the House of Representatives is faithfully ready to expeditiously address such requests. Please, we need our students back to their respective schools. I so plead."

Meanwhile, ASUU has asked the National Assembly to go beyond "begging" ASUU to call off its strike by plugging spending leakages in government to allow for the provision of needed infrastructure for the masses.

ASUU also lashed out at the Senate Vice Chairman of the Committee on Education, Professor Sola Adeyeye, over his comments on the on-going ASUU strike on why a Professor will demand payment to supervise postgraduate students.

A release signed by the University of Ibadan chairman of the union, Dr Olusegun Ajiboye, tagged "The Goofing Professor Adeyeye: Senate and Begging Comments", said Professor Adeyeye is using public funds to train all his children abroad hence lacks knowledge on the situation of things in Nigerian universities.