As the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, strike continues unabated, the Acting Vice Chancellor, VC, Paul University, Awka, Anambra State, hinted Monday in Onitsha, that he is in support of the on going strike by ASUU adding that its demands are not much compared with what legislators earn.
Buttressing his point further he said that, “what ASUU is gunning for is what it should be, ASUU is right and until this demands are met, let ASUU continue with the strike”.
“The demands by ASUU are not much, what I earn as a professor in a whole year is not up to a month salary of a senator.
Why must it be so, are they more academic, educated or learned than us? They should be made career employees than what they are. They should only sit, legislate and go and not to talk of money,” he fumed.
Continuing he sited the just concluded political party primary elections where he said money exchanged hands for votes adding, “look at the political parties’ primary elections where they carried money around and all the rest of them”.
He accused the Federal Government of being major cause of the strike stating that both the previous and current administration were not interested in academic pursuit by Nigerians.
“The past and present government s are not interested in academics. I knew when we were in secondary school there were universities then, the facilities in the universities were okay then, the laboratory, library, among others. If the government is interested they should not leave the universities to suffer”.
