The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to sheathe its sword and reach a compromise with the Federal Government over their ongoing strike.
According to the JAMB registrar, both parties will have to take hard decisions if the issues are to be solved permanently.
He made the comments during a tour of some centres in Lagos where JAMB’s mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination held.
‘I appeal to ASUU, I appeal to government,’ Professor Oloyede disclosed.
‘Please solve the problem so our children can go back to school.
‘Even if ASUU goes back to the classroom, that will not prevent it from happening tomorrow.
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‘I believe that what we should do is to look at the system. And take some very hard decisions.
‘If we do not take hard decisions, we are postponing the evil day.’
Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, had earlier declared that the government will not allow the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to plunge it into another burden of borrowings.
Keyamo made this assertion while speaking during an interview with ‘Politics Today’ on Channels TV which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York on Friday.
He said the federal government has explored all avenues to reach a truce, but the striking ASUU members turned deaf ears.
Keyamo stated that ASUU failed to honour dialogue with the key stakeholders holding the purse of the federal government.
The minister said the government cannot go beyond its capacity because it is not only ASUU that is feeding from the federal government purse.