Falana and NLC memebers
The Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC in Lagos make good it’s promise as they join the nationwide protest called by the national body in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU strike over poor condition of education funding in the country.
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The protest in Lagos, saw the unionists march in major streets of Ikeja, carrying placards with different inscriptions on the need for better conditions in the country, and singing solidarity songs.
Policemen were seen in some vehicles around, to avoid crisis.
Speaking during the rally, the Chairperson, Lagos State NLC, Agness Sessi, called on the government to make things better in the country, noting that that the economy was not in good shape.
The Southwest Coordinator of ASUU, Dr Adelaja Ogunkoya, said that the government’s stance on the lingering lecturers’ strike that had kept students at home for more than five months was not good enough.
“Before, foreign students do come to Nigerian universities for studies but today the reverse is the case,” he said, adding that there was a need to do something about it.
He also decried poor welfare of university lecturers, resulting in low morale to research, among other things.
Mr Wale Seteolu, another unionist and a university don, said it was only through revamping of education that the nation could get back to reckoning.
An associate of the union and Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), said the people reserve the right to call a government to order.
The NLC in Lagos had said on Monday that they would march to the state secretariat in Alausa, Ikeja to deliver a letter to the state governor.
The Federal Government had earlier urged the NLC to shelve the nationwide protest.
