Parents in Osun State have urged the Federal Government to take all necessary measures to put an end to the impasse as the present dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government assumes a new dimension.
Some parents blamed the Federal Government in their comments to PulseNets on Monday in Osogbo.
She had to enrol her in a skill-acquisition programme, according to Timothy Oluleke, whose daughter is a Federal University of Oye-Ekiti undergraduate.
He added that many of the undergraduates had fallen into criminality and unwholesome living while claiming that the strike was detrimental to the students.
He said that some of the students had been co-opted into a larger plot to be used against the government in the upcoming general elections in 2023 as additional grounds for accusing the administration of having a lax attitude toward the growth of public education.
“It is common knowledge that our government doesn’t give a damn about what happens to our children in public schools. We won’t blame them since most of them don’t have their children there.
“If you look at the whole thing, the issue of public school is not of importance to this present government,” he said.
Isaac Rotimi, a former headmaster, bemoaned the fact that neither the ASUU nor the Federal Government had permitted a change in their positions.
“ASUU is right in its fight. Their agitation is genuine. The Federal Government too may be right. It is just understanding that matters in this situation.
“Another problem is that the Federal Government has not been faithful. Several administrations have not been faithful and have not lived up to their promises to the union,” he noted.
Remember that the Federal Government had taken ASUU to court to enforce its authority, and that the judge had ordered the union to end its seven-month strike.
The Federal Government on Monday instructed vice chancellors of public universities to reopen the institutions; however, the directive was later revoked.
