Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU) chapter, Dr Adekunle Idris today enumerated the reasons behind the strike embarked upon by lecturers of the institution.
“ASUU LASU is on strike for three reasons; the first is the exorbitant LASU school fees, the second, is the issue of no vacancy, no promotion; a policy that was just introduced into the university and the third is the implementation of the Universities Miscellaneous Provision Act” he said while speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
Though he noted that there are other issues responsible for the ongoing strike, he maintained that “these are three core issues that led to the current strike”.
He also noted that the association “complained in-house” to allow government policy work for some time before complaining but “the outcome of the policy become clear that the we cannot fold our arms any further, we have got to speak out to the public”.
The academician noted that though the blames have been traded between the state government and the Governing Council, their grievances will be channelled to the governing council because “they are our employers” adding that “however; the governor picks those in the governing council to represent him” that’s why we “direct our problems to the governing council”.
“We dialogue with whoever is interested” he added.
He noted that the it has taken the union three years to take action because “we now can see that it is affecting the totality of the system entirely” he said.
Students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Main campus in Ojo on Tuesday, protested against the school management over the high school fees.
The protesting students were reported to have abandoned one of their examination to register their grievances.
Local media reported that the students were reacting to the rumour making the rounds on the campus that the management had no intention to effect a cut in tuition as promised during their admission into the school.
The Lagos State government, as part of moves to douse the rising tension caused by the increase in the tuition of LASU students, earlier said the proposed fees would only be paid by incoming students that would be admitted into the school in years to come.
The student were however, directed to pay N193,750 for Arts/Education; N223,750 for Social and Management Sciences; N248,750 for Law while those in Communication/Transport, Sciences, Engineering and College of Medicine paid N238,750, N258,750, N298,750 and N348,750 respectively as against old fees which ranges between N25,000 and N62,500.
Meanwhile, the Students Union Government, SUG, the umbrella body of every student in the institution has dissociated itself from the protest.
