President of the Academic Staff of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday said if the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and his Labour and Productivity Counterpart, Chris Ngige had handled the ongoing strike better, the industrial action would not have lingered this long.
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Osodeke was speaking before special committee led by the House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila where he said that the House had handled the situation better.
His words are coming the same day ASUU lawyer, Femi Falana hinted of a plan to call off the strike in respect for the ruling of the Court of Appeal which also called for the respect for the National Industrial Court which ruled that the teachers must return to classes.
Osodeke told the committee members, “Please, let all of us come together with members of the House of Representative to work together to put a beautiful end to this thing we have started so that every Nigerian will be proud of us.
“Once again, I want to thank you for intervening and I want to appeal that in future, we should not allow strike to linger. Strike should not go beyond two days. If the way the National Assembly had intervened fast, or those in charge of education and labour had done exactly this, we would not be where we are today.
“We would not have stayed more than 2 or 3 weeks. Strike is all over the world but they don’t allow it last this long.
“Once again thank you very much, hoping together in the next few days, we put at end to the strike.”
Below is the tweet by the House of Representatives verified handle
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