Two hundred and sixteen Nigerians
at home and in the Diaspora have
signed an online petition asking the
Federal Government and the
Academic Staff Union of
Universities to end the industrial
dispute which has kept public
universities shut for four months.
The petition launched on
change.org, a go-to site for web
protests, is asking President
Goodluck Jonathan and the National
President of ASUU, Dr. Nassir Faggae,
to reach an “amicable consensus.”
In the petition entitled, “Mr.
President and the Academic Staff
Union of Universities: Please End the
ASUU Strike now,” the petitioners
said the Presidency should stop
playing politics with education of the
Nigerian youth.
The petition read in part, “Since the
ASUU strike began, it has been over
half a semester, a lot in the life of
students waiting at home, not
knowing when the strike will be
over. The future of Nigeria is at
stake. Stop playing politics with
education.
“It is urgent we send a message
that it is long past time for the FG
and ASUU to reach consensus and
get students back to school by
ending this strike.”
A majority of non-students who
appended their signature to the
petition noted that they joined the
online protest with a view to crying
out to ASUU and the FG to consider
poor students whose parents cannot
afford the luxury of sending them
overseas to study like the sons and
daughters of political office holders.
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