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Satguru Maharaj Ji Asks Buhari To Sack Ministers Ngige, Adamu; Allow Soyinka, Falana Negotiate With Striking Varsity Lecturers

Falana
August 12, 2022

He said that Ngige and the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu should be sacked with immediate effect for non-performance.

Satguru Maharaj Ji, the founder of One Love Family, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige and remove him from the government team negotiating with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Maharaj Ji, who suggested that President hand over the ASUU negotiation to Prof. Wole Soyinka and Femi Falana (SAN) said that Ngige and the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu should be sacked with immediate effect for non-performance.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Maharaj Ji made the call on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

He said, “All the government negotiators, including the minister of labour and minister of education should be sacked immediately. They should be sacked by the president because they are not doing anything to resolve the lingering crisis in the nation’s ivory tower.

“In their place, bring on board people like Femi Falana, NBA President, Prof Woke Soyinka, among other notable and credible Nigerians, to negotiate with the striking lecturers.

“ASUU leaders too should be considerate in their demands in the interest of the future of our children because our children are suffering as a result of the incessant strike in our nation’s education sector. ASUU president too should remember one thing, that he is a parent.”

He further called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to give ASUU members half of their demands, pending the completion of the negotiations to end the strike which will be six months old on August 14, 2022.

“I recommend that the federal government should give the striking lecturers half of what they are asking for pending negotiation, and after negotiation, it is either you add more or minus. ASUU being on strike is not okay,” he said, noting that the strike has affected Nigeria’s economy.

The university lecturers commenced the industrial action on February 14, 2022, to demand funding for the revitalisation of public universities, payment of earned academic allowances, deployment of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), payment of promotion arrears, and renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, among many others.

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