ASUU rejects crowdfunding platform to end strike
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected a crowdfunding platform initiated to end the ongoing strike by lecturers of public universities in the country.
The crowdfunding platform facilitated by the founder of Human Rights Radio, Ahmed Isah, was aimed at raising money for ASUU to end the strike that has grounded academic activities in the nation’s public varsities.
Isah had invited the leadership of ASUU, led by its president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, to his station to intimate them with efforts made to resolve the age-long crisis between ASUU and the federal government but Osodeke blatantly refused the gesture.
According to reports, the public had started donating money to the cause with the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, contributing N50 million to the project before ASUU decried the action and asked that it be counted out of the initiative.
Recall that ASUU has been on strike since February and all efforts made by the government, and stakeholders including religious and traditional leaders to make the union call off the strike proved abortive.
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Isah also said he had set up a special intervention bank account domiciled in TAJ Bank to raise funds for the union, to end the strike.
In his desperate bid to convince ASUU to support the crowdfunding project, Isah had openly displayed the N50 million cash support by the governor but rather than applauding the initiative, Osodeke flayed the development, asking that his union be dissociated from the initiative.
Given the red flag accorded the project by the union he was working to assist, Isah furiously announced the discontinuation of the intervention scheme.
