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There seems to be no end to the Academic Staff Union of University
(ASUU) strike. Politicians, students and lecturers all seek for a
reasonable solution to this difficult situation, but to no avail. Some
young people who are affected by the strike support it, some have
expressed their disapproval. Nigeria’s leader Goodluck Jonathan has
personally ordered to find a way out of this
educational-political-economic drama. Looks like the time has come for
the older generation to speak up on the matter.
His patience snapped, and he sued the ASUU, as well as eight others.
Mallam
Dankano Garba Ahmed, a 71-year-old pensioner from Kano State, in a suit
submitted to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria laments that the
ongoing strike is negatively affecting his daughter’s
education.
The
elderly man accuses the union of frustrating his efforts to get his
daughter, Zainab Garba Ahmed, a 400 level Civil Engineering student at
the Bayero
University Kano, out of school within the determined time.
He
says that the strike irritates him, as he earns “less than N30,000 as
pension,” and, furthermore, has other children he would wish to support
financially; this, he states, depends on whether his daughter graduates
successfully.
He adds that the strike is making his daughter, who is the second plaintiff, idle, disorganised and psychologically disturbed.
“Her future and that of thousand others across the country are being stagnated strategically by the ongoing strike,” he decries.
The
court is asked to determine if the 21 October 2009 agreement, concluded
between ASUU and the Federal Government, is valid, binding, and not
illegal.
If found otherwise, the pensioner asks the court to
define whether ASUU has a right to commence strike for failure or
refusal of the Federal Government to implement the said agreement.
He
seeks perpetual injunction restraining ASUU from continuing with the
strike or taking any action whatsoever and by whatever means to enforce
the said agreement or compel the Federal Government to implement it.
The case comes up today, September 18, 2013, at the Kano division of National Industrial Court.
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