Father Sues ASUU Over Strike

There seems to be no end to the
Academic Staff Union of University
(ASUU) strike. Politicians, students and
lecturers all seek for a reasonable
solution to this difficult situation, but to
no avail. Some young people who are
affected by the strike support it, some
have expressed their disapproval.
Nigeria's leader Goodluck Jonathan has
personally ordered to find a way out of
this educational-political-economic
drama.
Looks like the time has come for the older generation to speak up on the
matter.His patience snapped, and he sued the ASUU, as well as eight others.
Mallam Dankano Garba Ahmed, a 71-year-old pensioner from Kano State, in a suit submitted to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria laments that the ongoing strike is negatively affecting his daughter's education.

The elderly man accuses the union of
frustrating his efforts to get his daughter,Zainab Garba Ahmed, a 400 level Civil Engineering student at the Bayero University Kano, out of school within the determined time.

He says that the strike irritates him, as he earns "less than N30,000 as pension," and,furthermore, has other children he would wish to support financially; this, he states, depends on whether his daughter graduates successfully.
He adds that the strike is making his
daughter, who is the second plaintiff, idle,disorganised and psychologically disturbed.

"Her future and that of thousand others
across the country are being stagnated
strategically by the ongoing strike," he
decries.
The court is asked to determine if the 21
October 2009 agreement, concluded
between ASUU and the Federal
Government, is valid, binding, and not
illegal.
If found otherwise, the pensioner asks the court to define whether ASUU has a right to commence strike for failure or refusal of the Federal Government to implement the said agreement.

He seeks perpetual injunction restraining
ASUU from continuing with the strike or
taking any action whatsoever and by
whatever means to enforce the said
agreement or compel the Federal
Government to implement it.

The case comes up today, September 18,
2013, at the Kano division of National
Industrial Court.
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