ASUU STRIKE WILL SOON BE HISTORY - NLC

The National President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Abdulwaheed Omar has stated that the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of University( ASUU) would soon be called off even as advised...
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agents to devise new strategies in tackling the security challenges
facing the country.
Omar, who spoke in the same vein with Niger State Governor, Dr Muazu
Babangida Aliyu, at the 10TH Quadrennial Conference of the Nigeria
Civil Service Union yesterday in Minna, decried the use of security
agents to oppress people in the nation's polity. He stated that the
NLC, in recognizing that ASUUis an affiliate body, held a meeting with
the union on Monday and would present the position to Vice-president
Namadi Sambo who is now leading the government's negotiating team.
The NLC president said: "The ASUUstrike is a matter of concern to all
of us. ASUUis an affiliate of the NLC; we held a meeting two days ago
to reach an understanding; we are to meet the vice president."
He explained that the congress was hoping to bring both parties
together, saying that "very soon ASUUstrike will be history."
The NLC boss stated that the strike had reached the level it was
because government does things with impunity.
"Government signed an agreement and they said it was previous
administration; if government can inherit foreign reserves from the
previous administration while dodging the agreement reached by the
previous administration, government should fulfil its sides of the
bargain," he added.
Omar called on security agents to devise new strategies to check the
security challenges facing the country, and decried the way security
agents subject Nigerians to hardships at checkpoints and other places,
all in the bid to end the insurgence especially in some parts of the
north.
"We cannot be in bondage unending, security agents should have a plan
and engage modern technology to fight the insurgency and give the
people a breathing space," he stated.
He decried the use of security agents by government to oppress
political opponents, citing the happenings in River State and the
closure of Adamawa Governor's Lodge in Abuja as a pure display of
impunity.
"Governance cannot continually be done with perpetual impunity,
particularly in a democracy; we must tell ourselves the truth; we
cannot act against the people that put us there", he said.