Also, Congress has given notification of a national protest
within the 21-day ultimatum earlier issued to the Federal Government and
expected to end on May 4, 2022.
President of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, who made the
disclosure during the 2022 pre-May Day rally on Thursday in Abuja, explained
that the 21-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government is to meet not just
the demands of ASUU, but of the three universities based unions: Non-Academic
Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and National Association of
Academic Technologists (NAAT).
He said: “Within the span of the subsisting 21-day ultimatum
given by Congress, the NLC will hold national protests against the current
strike action affecting students of Nigeria’s public universities and
occasioned by government’s failure to honour agreements reached with trade
unions in our universities.
“The protest is to draw the attention of government to the
inherent catastrophe in the emerging culture of Social Apartheid in our society
especially as marked by prolonged lockout of students from working class and
poor homes from our public universities while the children of the rich continue
their academic pursuits uninterrupted.
“If at the end of the national protest and the 21-day
ultimatum, the Federal Government still fails to resolve the industrial crises
in Nigeria’s universities, the Congress would be left with no other option than
to embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike action in solidarity with
our affiliates in the universities and with Nigerian students whose future and
wellbeing are being robbed.”
Meanwhile, Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has challenged
the organised labour to resuscitate the Labour Party which was workers party,
to take over power from this current crop of leadership.
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