The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has criticised the Court Judgement mandating  the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend  its 7 month strike.
CEOAFRICA had reported that the National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday, ordered that ASUU should call off its ongoing Nationwide strike.
NANS National Public Relations Officer, Giwa Temitope, who reacted to the Judgement sait it betrays equity.
Giwa  said that instead of directing ASUU to call outfits strike, the Court should have directed the Federal Government to answer the demands of the lecturers.
The PRO said; “Our attention has been drawn to the News of a Court Judgement mandating the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its 7 month strike. As an association, we feel disturbed to read the news of the Judgement because we believe that it betrays equity.’’
“Ordinarily, the Federal Government is not meant to have dragged ASUU to court. But, the fact that they had to drag ASUU to Court is a signal that this government cannot handle crisis. And, we want to state categorically that the court cannot force members of ASUU back to lecture theatres.’’
“And, as it stands today, with that court Judgement, we maintain that the court has not resolved the problem and we reject the Judgement in strong terms. The court could have said that the Federal Government should go and pay rather than say that lecturers who are on strike should go back to classrooms. We were expecting the court to have understood that lecturers are on contract of personal service hence, they cannot be compelled to render a service they don’t want to render.’’
“The only remedy to this strike action is for the Federal Government to accede to the demands of ASUU which the government willingly entered into with them and properly fund education.”