The National President of the Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (PTA), Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, has expressed total dissatisfaction over the extension of ASUU strike.
According to him, the additional 2 month strike would have devastative implications for the educational sector across the 36 states in the country.
The association wants the state representatives and the federal house of assembly to equally intervene in the matter by bringing both parties to the same round table. He said.
“We were hoping that at the end of the one-month warning strike by ASUU, both the government and the ASUU would have come to an agreement, but it is really unfortunate that they are going on another strike and we strongly believe it would affect our students and the standard of education across the country.”
As a result, the PTA insists that both ASUU and the federal government representative return to the negotiating table and resolve their differences in order to keep our students and teachers in school.
The extension of the ASUU strike came amidst an increase in prices of foodstuffs, the high cost of petroleum and general insecurity challenges bedeviling the peace and stability in the country.
Hence our appeal to ASUU to have a rethink over the issues ,while calling on federal govt to listen to their demand, in order to save our children from wasting more time at home. Haruna said.
Furthermore, not every parent in the country can afford to send their child abroad or to a private university for studies, necessitating the need for both the Federal government and ASUU to assist in returning to the negotiating table in order to salvage the situation.
The PTA national president, on the other hand, urged the federal government to rescue all abducted school students who are still being held captive.
Similarly, an interfaith specialist in Nigeria, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, who is the national president of the foundation for the protection of women and children in the country, has also drawn the attention of ASUU and the federal government to the importance of dialogue as a way towards tackling any problem bedeviling progress and development.
She called on religious leaders and traditional title holders to work with other educational stake holders such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), like UNICEF and UNESCO, in the country to equally appeal to both ASUU and the Federal government towards bringing an end to the continuous strike.
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