The Public Complaints Commission on Wednesday intervened in the unrest emanating in the state from students’ reaction to the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
PCC Commissioner in Ekiti State, Mr Kayode Bamisile said the commission waded into the matter as a Federal Government’s agency seeking to end the feud for students to return to their campuses, coupled with complaints being received from the public over blockage of Ado-Iworoko-Ifaki road by students, causing economic damage to the state.
Bamisile, who spoke in Ado Ekiti during a meeting with ASUU and the students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students, said every right-thinking Nigerian must be disturbed by the lingering strike in the universities and the attendant crises.
The Chairman, NANS/Joint Campus Committee, Ekiti axis, Felix Olanrewaju, said that as much as the students were angry with FG for reneging on its promises to academic staff, ASUU’s position on the closure of schools was not the best option.
Federal University, Oye Ekiti ASUU Chairman, Dr Gabriel Omonijo, who expressed disgust at the ways ASUU’s members were being treated, said it was worrisome that the salary structures operational in universities were approved in 2009.
According to him, Federal Government must listen to them. They must fulfill the agreements reached with ASUU on funding of universities, autonomy, the issue of IPPIS, and their general welfare to stop the brain drain and the killing of Nigeria's educational system.
