MEN Seeks Reconciliation Between FG And ASUU

Yakubu  Busari

The Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria (MEN) notes with deep concern the renewed crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

According to statement  ,This dispute, recurring with dangerous regularity, has once again placed the future of millions of Nigerian students on the line. Education, the bedrock of national development, cannot continue to be treated as a disposable bargaining chip.

Solomon Dalung Esq Comrade  General  Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria (MEN) Abuja made available to this medium in Jos .

Dalung  says, “Beyond the industrial crisis, a graver moral question confronts our academic community: the betrayal of electoral integrity by some university professors. Reports of manipulated figures and compromised roles during elections have tarnished the ivory tower’s reputation.

” When those entrusted with shaping young minds descend to the level of political hirelings, the conscience of the nation suffers irreparable harm.

“This dual crisis, government’s failure to honor agreements and academia’s moral compromise, underscores the urgent need for national reflection. The Federal Government must return to sincere, result, oriented dialogue with ASUU, while the union itself must cleanse its ranks of members who desecrate the sacred calling of truth by enabling electoral fraud”,he said .

MEN therefore calls on all stakeholders, government, academia, civil society, and the Nigerian people, to insist on accountability.

The government must keep faith with its obligations, and ASUU must hold its members to the highest ethical standards. To undermine education or subvert elections is to mortgage the future of Nigeria.

As a movement, we declare that no nation can rise when its classrooms are shut and its professors are compromised.

MEN stands with Nigerian students and citizens in demanding truth, justice, and integrity. The time to act is now, for only through honesty and responsibility can the dignity of our universities be restored and the trust of the Nigerian people rekindled.