The protest and mass rally, which will be held during the first week in August, is to compel the federal and state governments to implement Collect Bargaining Agreements (CBA) with striking lecturers of tertiary institutions as well as to save the public education sector from collapse.
In a statement jointly issued by JAF Chairperson and Secretary, Dr. Dipo Fashina and Abiodun Aremu, the group said the nationwide protest to save the education sector from collapse has become inevitable and called on Nigerians to join forces with ASUU and other unions in the academic sector to demand adequate funding of the sector and autonomy in the administration and running of tertiary institutions.
The group equally called on all stakeholders to hold consultative and mobilisation meetings and rallies, in view of the progamme of actions to be made public in the next one week.
The statement reads: “JAF held an Expanded General Meeting Sunday, July 22 with stakeholders in the education sector. The meeting was in furtherance of the resolution by a previous meeting of JAF (held July 14) for a nationwide mobilisation for national protest to save public education and to rally Nigerians to join forces with ASUU and other unions in the academic sector from primary to tertiary levels to compel the Federal and State Governments to implement Collect Agreements on: adequate funding of education, academic freedom, and autonomy in the administration and running of the tertiary institutions in line with the demands of the stakeholders in the sector.
“JAF appeals to Nigerians to see the current struggle by ASUU and the inconclusive struggles of other unions in the education sector as the struggle of the Nigerian oppressed masses, whose millions of children would be denied education and a future, should the current trend of poor funding and neglect for public education by government at all levels, be allowed to continue”.
Source: Thisday
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