The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to
urgently fix the problems with bedevilling the Nigerian economy.
Fix the Nigerian economy, ASUU to President Buhari
According to ASUU, the state of the economy is contributing to the
growing tensions in the country.
Daily Trust reports that ASUU stated that part of the problems with the
Buhari administration was policy inconsistency.
This was the position of the chairman ASUU, University of Ibadan
chapter, Dr Deji Omole, who spoke to journalists on Sunday, March 19.
He said the economy was a superstructure that could not be handled with
levity but sound economic team and policy which he said were yet to
materialize in the present government.
He urged President Buhari to urgently tackle the economic challenges of
the country.
According to him, while the statistics of the unemployed were
unpalatable, more youths were joining the market of unemployed and
wasting away because no working policy had effectively targeted them.
He said that the growing spate of kidnapping, abduction, corruption,
armed robbery, cyber-criminality were not unconnected with the poor
economic conditions.
On Wednesday, March 15, NAIJ.com had reported that ASUU gave both the
federal and state governments a 14-day ultimatum to pay the shortfall in
their salaries running into millions of naira or face unrest in
universities.
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