Prof. Mosto Onuoha, President, Nigerian Academy of Science,
says incessant industrial actions are doing more damage than good to higher the education system in Nigeria.
Onuoha said this on Wednesday during a webinar on
"Building Resilient Higher Education System in Nigeria", organized by
the academy.
He made the remark while reacting to the ongoing strike by
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
According to him, the academia, parents and students are
losers during such industrial actions.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ASUU on March
23 embarked on a nationwide industrial action.
The strike follows the decision of the Federal Government to
stop the salaries of lecturers, who had not enrolled in the Integrated Payroll
and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
ASUU is opposed to the use of IPPIS for lecturers.
The strike is also to compel the government to implement the
agreements and resolutions of Memorandum of Action (NAN) discussed in 2009
ASUU-FGN agreement, the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and 2017
MoA, all of which had not been implemented.
Onuoha, however, urged the government to stop entering into
agreements it could not honour.
"Instead of entering into agreements and not implement
them, the government should keep dialoguing with
ASUU until we get it right with the challenges facing our
public tertiary institutions.
"These incessant strikes are really affecting our
university education negatively," he said.
The academy president urged ASUU to be flexible in their
demands, saying: "ASUU cannot have it all.
"Many of ASUU strikes do not yield the government's
full intervention or implementation to agreed terms. And we cannot continue to
shut down the universities.
"This matter is about dialoguing. It is about to give
and take. ASUU cannot have it all.
"So, I appeal to our colleagues to be flexible in their demands, to help build a resilient and quality higher education system in the country, " Onuoha said. NAN
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