ASUU: Enough Is Enough, Buhari Tells Striking Lecturers

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)  to consider the plight of the future generations of the country and call off its strike.
The Tide reports that the ASUU strike has stretched into the sixth month.
The president said that the halt on academic activities would have generational consequences on families, the educational system and future development of the country.
President Buhari stated this when he received some governors of the All Progressives Congress, legislators and political leaders at his residence in Daura, Katsina State on Monday.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, and titled ‘Enough is enough, President Buhari tells ASUU, urges lecturers to consider generational consequences’, the president appealed to lecturers to halt the ongoing strike in the interest of the students.
President Buhari noted that the strike had already taken a toll on the psychology of parents, students and other stakeholders, throwing up many moral issues that were already begging for attention.
While claiming that the government understood ASUU’s position, the President remarked, “We hope that ASUU will sympathise with the people on the prolonged strike. Truly, enough is enough for keeping students at home. Don’t hurt the next generation for goodness sake”.
He urged well-meaning Nigerians, particularly those close to the leaders and members of the association, to intervene in persuading the lecturers to reconsider their position, and the ripple effect on an entire generation and the nation.
Buhari noted that students from Nigerian universities were already handicapped in competing with their counterparts in a highly connected and technology-driven work space, adding that keeping them at home only deprives them of time, skill and opportunities to be relevant on the global stage.
“Colonial type education was geared towards producing workers in government. Those jobs are no longer there. Our young people should get education to prepare them for self-employment. Now education is for the sake of education.
“Through technology, we are much more efficient. We should encourage our children to get education, not only to look for government jobs”, he added.