CDHR to NUT: Suspend planned sympathy strike with ASUU

CDHR to NUT: Suspend planned
sympathy strike with ASUU
on october 22, 2013 at 9:04 am in news
BY EMMA AMAIZE
WARRI— COMMITTEE for Defence of Human Rights,
CDHR, Delta State chapter, has called on the Nigeria
Union of Teachers, NUT, to suspend its planned
sympathy strike with the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.
“We feel strongly that it is not necessary. Another
strike by NUT at this time will compound the
problems already encountered by parents of their
wards,” the state chapter said in a statement by the
chairman and secretary, Benefit Orugbo and Chief
Fred Omereyone.
According to Delta CDHR, “The problems of
insecurity and moral decadence will be worsened
among pupils in the various schools in the country if
NUT fails to heed this modest advice. NUT should
not bow to pressures by embarking on a sympathy
strike as the Federal Government has not failed the
NUT in its obligation to members in the past.
“We have experienced over time that, like a game of
football where two giants fight, the grass bears the
main brunt of the battle. The grass in the ASUU
strike appears to be the students in this case, as
members of ASUU and the government may not
suffer any pains at the end of the strike, but
students, definitely, will lose ground by the time
they will graduate.
“The respective interests in the ASUU strike ought
to be addressed by the deliberating parties to
protect, promote and secure the future of the
average Nigerian student who cannot afford
education abroad.”