Posted on: 11:04 Wed, 18 May 2016



National President of Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),
Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has
mobilized members of the union
for strike and mass action
commencing Wednesday to force
the Federal Government to revert
the pump price from N145 to
N86.50.

In a letter sent to members of the
congress nationwide and read at
the University of Ibadan Chapter
where the Chairman, Dr Deji Omole
mobilized members to get ready for
mass resistance to what he called
the obnoxious and callous policy of
fuel price increment.

According to Omole, the policy of
subsidy removal was the most
criminal ambush from the
Mohammadu Buhari-led federal
government to empower the rich
and cripple the poor.

The ASUU boss who said that the
common denominator to all
Nigerians is poverty added that the
same APC government that failed to
pay civil servants for months is
now celebrating budget signing
with the legalization of black
market.

Omole who noted that many state
governors who now align with the
removal of subsidy ran their states
aground through wasteful spending
added that the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission
should beam search lights on state
governors.

ASUU boss noted that the coup
against the masses adding that
since Nigeria runs motorized
economy, Nigerians cannot be
forced to carry the problems
created by the rich and friends of
government.

ASUU president in the letter
entitled “Increase in Pump price of
Premium Motor Spirit to N145
perlitre: Proposal for Joint Action
with NLC stated that ASUU
members are called upon to
according to our Union’s principles,
fully respect Article 2 of the
Constitution of ASUU; that our
Union and members shall work for
the protection and advancement of
the socio-economic interests of the
nation.

Branch Chairpersons are to conduct
emergency congress meetings on
Tuesday 17 May 2016 to mobilise
our members for the action
commencing on Wednesday. All
branches of ASUU nationwide are
to comply”

Ogunyemi anchored the position on
“delayed, partially paid and in
most cases unpaid salaries for a
number of months by state, federal
and local governments, disguised
retrenchment of workers, especially
by State Governments, in the name
of verification exercise and endless
hunt for ghost workers and heavy
taxation”.

Source: ThisDay