Market Women Protest! Tells ASUU To Stop Cheap Blackmail And Call Off Strike.

* 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.
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?”
On FG/ASUU agreement
Asked why she did not criticise the Federal
Government for failing to reach an agreement
with ASUU, Mrs Sani 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.”
Vanguard