Market women protest ASUU strike at N-Assembly

Protesting traders, under the aegis of
National Market Women Association, Monday,
stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, call off its more than three months old strike.

The protesters, who had been at the Ministry
of Education and Office of the Head of
Service, arrived the Assembly complex at
11.30a.m.

President-General of the group, Mrs Felicia
Sani, who led the more than 200 protesting
women, said: "We are tired of seeing our
children at home. We want our children back in school.

Enough of this cheap blackmail.

We all know what they do with our year-one
daughters in the university. We equally know
that they sell handouts and handbooks.

Is this not worse than corruption of the
highest order?"

On FG/ASUU agreement Asked why she did not criticise the Federal Government for failing to reach an agreement with ASUU, Mrs Sani said: "Which agreement?

How do you expect lecturers in state
universities to earn same salaries as Federal ones? That is impossible.

We are not educated, but you do not expect a
hotel in my village to cost same price as a
hotel in Abuja.

They are located in different places. So how
can a state university lecturer earn same
salary with his federal counterpart?

We are begging them for the last time. If we
come out again we may have to chase them out
of this country and replace them with so many jobless Nigerians."

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