Bashir El-Rufai, son of Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State, has called for the proscription of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
ASUU is a union of university academic staff in Nigeria, founded in 1978. It’s an offshoot of the Nigerian Association of University Teachers which was established in 1965.
The union had since February 14, 2022 embarked on strike over failure of government to meet its demands; including the deployment of UTAS to replace IPPIS and the implementation of the 2009 renegotiated agreement which contains its members’ conditions of service.
However, with the long disagreements with the federal government, ASUU advised Nigerian students and of course parents to appeal to the government to agree to her demands.
Irked with the long strike, Bashir described the union as useless, noting that it should be scrapped and replaced with educators that have the interest of students at heart.
“ASUU is a very useless Union. They should be scrapped & replaced with educators that actually give a damn about students and how that translates to the future of this country”, he tweeted.
