Chimaroke Nnamani, former Enugu State governor, has decried the inability of the government to resolve the prolonged strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), noting that the country’s educational system is now endangered.
The Enugu East Senator who took to his twitter account @ChimarokeNamani on Thursday to comment on the ongoing strike, noted further that action has led to loss of self esteem and erosion of dignity among the students.
“The 2022 ASUU strike has been ongoing for 6 months and 3days. There have been numerous attempts by the FGN and ASUU to come to an amicable agreement. This cancerous and terminal problem has seriously endangered our educational system. It has also left our Youths in Abandonment,” he said.
“Students at home, associated wastage and mental carnage. Academic decay and moral despair. Stagnation, peer degradation, loss of self esteem, erosion of dignity. Disenchantment and career destruction.”
According to Nnamani, “In order to maximize learning for our children and boost research productivity.Academic Staff at our various educational institutions want better working & research conditions. In addition,they are fighting for improved infrastructure and learning facilities for our Universities.
“Our teeming Youths and Undergraduates, deservedly are in a hurry to join the Global World. Join and participate in the Universal Digital and virtual Community and all her appurtenances.They have earned the right to digital Innovations and Creativity unfettered by the vagaries of incompetence and lack.
“The union also called for the payment of earned academic allowances, a solution for university accountability and transparency, unpaid promotion arrears, renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, and the replacement of the integration of payroll and personnel information system with the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).”