Aftermath of ASUU/Govt Meeting: Lecturers warn Nigerians of FG’s move to re-introduce Austerity measures asuu...

L-R – President Goodluck Jonathan in a handshake with the President of Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr.Nasiru Isa Fagge. With them is Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi during the meeting with the President at the State House Abuja on Monday. PHOTO: AKIN OLADOKUN.

The outcome of the marathon meeting yester-night between The Academic Staff Union of Universities and Nigeria’s Federal Government was not without its fallout of threats by the dons warning the government not to entertain temptation of re-introducing austerity measures called SAP.
The lecturers, still waxing strong in their 4-month old strike, raised the alarm over an alleged plan by the Federal Government to return the Structural Adjustment Programme “through the back door” 24 years after its introduction by the regime of the former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (rtd) in 1989.
According to ASUU, government is willing to stick to the contentious 2009 agreement on the condition that they would reintroduce the IMF-inspired and instructed austerity measure of the Babangida era after almost 3 decades of failure of such policies. The teachers said this is a sure pathway to the death-agony of public schools in Nigeria.
They also said patriotism demands that the government should reject the dictate of the international financial conglomerate and the reintroduction of SAP through the back door, under the superintendence of the IMF lackey, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
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