Market Women Protest ASUU Strike At National Assembly

It seems its not just the students that are affected by the ASUU

strike as protesting traders, under the aegis of National Market Women

Association, Monday, stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the

Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, call off its more than

three months old strike.

The protesters, who had been at the Ministry of Education and Office

of the Head of Service, arrived the Assembly complex at 11.30a.m.

The President-General of the group, Mrs Felicia Sani, who led the more

than 200 protesting women, said: "We are tired of seeing our children

at home. We want our children back in school. Enough of this cheap

blackmail.

"We all know what they do with our year-one daughters in the

university. We equally know that they sell handouts and handbooks.

"Is this not worse than corruption of the highest order?"

The President-General of the group, Mrs Felicia Sani when asked why

she did not criticize the Federal Government for failing to reach an

agreement with ASUU said: "Which agreement? How do you expect

lecturers in state universities to earn same salaries as Federal ones?

That is impossible.

"We are not educated, but you do not expect a hotel in my village to

cost same price as a hotel in Abuja.

"They are located in different places. So how can a state university

lecturer earn same salary with his federal counterpart?

"We are begging them for the last time. If we come out again we may

have to chase them out of this country and replace them with so many

jobless Nigerians."



source; Vangaurd