Students of Bayero University Kano have pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government to reach an agreement over the union’s one-month warning strike.
ASUU had on February 14th suspended activities of all public universities in the country over the government’s lacklustre response to the union’s demands.
Daily News24 gathered that Bayero University is scheduled to commence its first semester next week and the recent strike action by ASUU increasingly frustrates the student’s effort.
Kalilat Sadiq, a final year student of the institution while speaking to Daily News24 that she has spend fie years in the institution for a four year course, adding that her mates on private institutions are currently undergoing their national youth service.
“I want to graduate from this school in good time, my mates are currently serving while I am here dealing with ASUU strike, I don’t want to waste unnecessary time in school all because of strike, let the government resole this strike please” she said.
Mujahideen Lawal a student of the institution warned that idleness breeds social vices in communities. He said that it was likely that students who are idle when they return might consider involving themselves in dastardic acts. “We are going back to our homes now and some of us don’t have what to do.
“We don’t want to go back to our homes and become liabilities to our parents or the society, I am calling on the federal government to resolve this strike.”
Similarly, Tanifa Ibrahim, a 200 level student of medical laboratory science told Daily News24 that the strike doesn’t affect the federal government because she believes that most of their children study in private tertiary institutions abroad and called on both parties to reach a compromise.
She said “We are called the leaders of tomorrow and we are always going on strike, this isn’t fair to us. We are trying to make it in Nigeria but the government isn’t helping matters and to that end we are pleading with the federal government to take responsibility and reach an agreement with ASUU.”
