‘Why I Selected To Keep’- Lecturer Who Rejected Juicy Abroad Provide Laments ASUU Strike

A lecturer on the Bayero College Kano (BUK), Mohammed Shaibu Atabo, has lamented the extended strike by the Tutorial Workers Union of Universities (ASUU).

The lecturer in a put up by way of Fb on Wednesday, revealed that patriotism is the explanation why he rejected a job provide within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) months earlier than ASUU launched into strike on February 14, 2022.

Shaibu who described the choice as a troublesome one, says he paying a bitter value because the Nigerian authorities refuses to implement a number of agreements it entered with ASUU, thus making the strike to linger.

Atabo additional notes that it’s been a 12 months since he turned down the provide of appointment from the United Arab Emirates College (UAEU), Dubai.

His put up reads: “A job alternative to work in Dubai got here quickly after I obtained my PhD from UDUS and a lecturing job provide from Bayero College Kano (BUK).

“Right now marks exactly one 12 months since I turned down the provide of appointment from the United Arab Emirates College (UAEU), Dubai (for simple reference).

“This was a troublesome resolution I made out of patriotism for my nation. I selected to remain again and work in BUK reasonably than go overseas. I acquired harsh criticism from my household and associates for making this resolution.

“Sure, I utilized for the job at UAEU and I used to be interviewed. Out of over 200 candidates from world wide, I used to be chosen as the highest prospect. It was in spite of everything preparations have been made and I used to be on the verge of leaving the nation that I spotted I used to be not able to commerce my job in Nigeria for the sake of transferring overseas.

“Right now, these of us in academia who selected to remain again are paying a bitter value as a result of our authorities entered into a number of agreements with ASUU and didn’t implement them. Gosh!! These are agreements our authorities voluntarily entered into and signed a number of years in the past. After six months of ASUU strike, as a substitute of our authorities addressing the problem, its greatest resolution was to blackmail ASUU and threaten us with ‘‘No Work, No Pay’’

“No marvel our era is now a ‘Japa era,’ individuals now go away this nation on the slightest alternative. We’re slaves in our personal nation.”

Naija Information understands that ASUU has been on strike since February 14th of 2022 to press dwelling its quite a few calls for to the Federal Authorities, which embody fee of earned allowances and salaries for lecturers, improved funding and upkeep for tertiary establishments, the adoption of the College Transparency and Accountability system (UTAS) for wage fee as a substitute of the federal government’s Built-in Payroll and Personnel Info System (IPPIS), the renegotiation of the ASUU FG 2009 settlement, amongst others.

Because the industrial motion started, a number of negotiations between the union and the federal government have resulted in impasse.