University lecturers yesterday replied to Senate President David Mark’s comments on the 2009 agreement, which they are asking the Federal Government to implement.
Mark had said that the government officials who signed the agreement “did not know their right from their left” and that the ASUU officials who negotiated exploited their ignorance.
The National treasurer of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Demola Aremu said President Goodluck Jonathan was among those who signed the agreement 2009.
According to Aremu, it took ASUU and the Federal Government team, led by Mr Gamaliel Onosode, three years to arrive at the agreement, so the team knew what they were going into, adding that it is pretentious for any top government functionary to claim that the government negotiating team did not understand fully what they signed with the teachers.
The union therefore called on the lawmakers and Nigerians to beg the President to implement the agreement as begging will not end the crisis.
“Begging will not bring any solution. Nigerians should rather beg government to face this agreement squarely and implement it. That is where our future lies,” Aremu said, adding that senators could also cut their allowances and contribute them to education for the benefit of all citizens.
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