ASUU URGES TINUBU, SOUTHWEST GOVERNORS TO TACKLE KIDNAPPING, INSECURITY
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ibadan Zone, on Thursday called on President Bola Tinubu and the South-West Governors to take action and stop bandits from entering the area. They want immediate steps to control kidnapping and mass abductions.
This message was shared during a press conference held by the Ibadan Zone of the union, which includes the University of Ibadan, Ibadan; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso; Osun State University, Osogbo; Kwara State University, Malete; and Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo.
Prof Biodun Olaniran, the Zonal Coordinator, spoke to journalists in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State.
He criticized the state governments for not following through on agreements made with the union at LAUTECH, Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, and Kwara State University.
He said that the union members are getting frustrated and upset because the agreements reached with the federal government of Nigeria are not being properly carried out.
Olaniran said, “ASUU wishes to task President Tinubu and the Governor of the South-West States to rise up and prevent bandits from penetrating into the zone by ensuring that kidnapping and mass abductions are tamed immediately.”
He commended the visitors and management of the University of Ibadan, Osun State University, and University of Ilorin, who have started partial implementation of the salary components of the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement.
“The Tinubu-led administration is not showing enough sincerity in addressing the crisis in Nigeria’s tertiary education sector.
“The non-implementation of the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement is an invitation to industrial unrest in Nigerian universities. Despite the efforts of the Union to continue to keep the universities open for our students, the inaction of the FGN towards the full implementation of the Union could jeopardise the peace and industrial harmony in our universities.
“Since the government signed the agreement, it has only implemented to varying degrees the financial components, such as Consolidated Academic Tool Allowances and Professorial Allowances, but has left out components like Earned Academic Allowances unattended. As of today, both the state and Federal governments have not paid several components of the agreement for up to four months.”
“Furthermore, the Union observed that the Federal government has also failed to inaugurate the Implementation Monitoring Committee that is expected to shield the agreement from bureaucratic bottlenecks and give room for smooth implementation and actualization of the signed agreement.”
ASUU, however, accused the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, of turning the signed agreement into a political campaign while paying less attention to how to genuinely resolve the underlying issues that will effectively bring lasting solutions to the lingering implementation crisis.
On the state of insecurity, ASUU challenged the Federal and State Governments in the South-West to rise up to prevent the rising spate of criminal kidnapping and abductions.
ASUU noted that it is “very concerning is the state of insecurity in the country which has shifted from the North-East, North-West, North Central and to become a national malaise, and now in the South-west.”
Olaniran stated that “there can be no better alternative to development than human development, wasting human lives by way of banditry and kidnapping is the highest form of wastage that may ultimately ruin a nation.
“The recent kidnapping of teachers and pupils in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State is a reminder of the perilous state to which Nigerians are exposed, which the leadership at the national and state governments must rise up actively to address, instead of unrewarding commiseration messages. Embracing economic policies without a human face is not only despicable but condemnable.”
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