ASUU strike: Parents, youths waiting for 2023 to express anger, pains.

…says Nigerians wounded by APC’s maladministration

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, or ASUU, strike has been ongoing since August 2017. According to the Middle Belt Movement for Justice and Peace (MBMJP), parents and young in Nigeria would display their rage, suffering, and disappointment over this in 2023.
According to the group, the administration’s lack of concern for the strike in Nigeria’s public institutions was due to the fact that Nigerians had long learned that the APC government did not have their best interests in mind.
Joe Bukka, the convener of the MBMJP, appeared on the Channels Television program “Politics Today” over the weekend to respond to Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labor, on his remarks on the ASUU strike.
The Minister had stated, among other things, that “the nation cannot come to a complete standstill because we wish to meet the demands of ASUU. While I’m here, let’s move on to more pressing matters.
Bukka claimed that the Minister’s remark made it quite evident that the APC-led Federal Government did not care about the condition of Nigerian youths or want to hear from ASUU.
He stated: “How can a Minister speak to Nigerians in such a manner about a strike that has left Nigerians angry and agitated. He was only insulting the sensibilities of Nigerians when he said the government did not have money to meet the demands of ASUU.
“But the government had money to donate to Afghanistan and also purchase exotic cars for Niger Republic. This is a government that found it expedient to have a rail line run from Nigeria to Niger Republic; a Government where an individual took close to 100billion, yet the government does not have money to meet the demands of ASUU.
“We are not surprised; we have not forgotten that this same government tagged our youths as lazy youths. This is a government that has made life unbearable for Nigerians through bad policies that have plunged Nigeria’s into unimaginable poverty.
“He was trying to compare a clueless government that has destroyed all the gains previous administrations made which stabilized our economy, to the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Maybe he does not know that Nigerians want this APC government to take us back to where they found us in 2015.
“The Minister cannot pretend that he does not know that Nigerians are all regretting voting this APC government into power in 2015. He should realize that we are all Nigerians and we know that the day of reckoning is coming.
“They can continue to treat the ASUU strike with much indifference because their children are not in the public universities but they must also realize that 2023 is fast approaching.
“Nigerians are waiting eagerly to demonstrate their anger, pains and disappointments towards this government with their votes. This administration has hurt Nigerians and the people are wounded, the earlier they realize that, the better for those functionaries who come on television to exhibit their bravado instead of being sober for the maladministration that is staring us in the face as a nation.”

GOGAN Media.