Nationwide Protest: Governor Inuwa Seeks Understanding From Labour Unions

Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, yesterday sought understanding from protesting members of organiser labour, assuring them of government’s concern about the lingering feud between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

He stated this yesterday when members of the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), alongside other affiliate Trade Unions took the protest to the Government House Gombe, where they delivered letter of demand for immediate end to the six-month old strike by ASUU, which had resulted in halting of academic activities in public universities in the country.

The labour unions joined its counterpart nationwide in a solidarity protest following the lingering face-off between ASUU and the federal government.

Receiving the protesters at the Government House, the governor said, “It is pathetic for young person’s desirous of educational pursuit to be left idle in their homes with their future and destiny at stake.”

Commending the protesters for conducting themselves peacefully, the governor promised that the protest letter would be despatched immediately for the attention of the concerned authorities in Abuja.

The state chairman of the NLC, Comrade Mohammed Musa, had earlier intimated the governor’s delegation that on the peaceful protest, which he said was in support of ASUU in its quest to prevail on government to improve the quality of university education in the country.