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       ASUU, Others Protest Against Poor EducationFunding
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 15, 2013, 1:59 am
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       THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, the
       Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and
       other stakeholders on Tuesday shut down
       activities on the ever-busy Ikorodu Road,
       Lagos to protest against the poor state of
       public education in the country.
       Others that joined the protest were the
       National Association of Nigerian Students,
       Concerned Students Against Education
       Commercialization and Education Rights
       Campaign. The protest was organized under
       the aegis of the Joint Action Front.
       The protesters said they were waging a war
       against what they described as
       commercialization of education in the
       country, adding that the Lagos rally was a
       prelude to a nationwide campaign targeted
       at shutting down the nation.
       Secretary JAF, Abiodun Aremu, said, “The
       goal of this protest is to shut down the
       nation until those in government begin to
       take education seriously.
       “Governments in Nigeria today operate anti-
       poor policies and they are not bothered
       about public education.
       “Funding of public education is not given
       the priority it deserves, because the children
       of those in government and their friends are
       being trained in private schools in Nigeria
       and foreign countries with looted funds.”
       According to JAF, the march was holding
       simultaneously in other Nigerian cities, such
       as Kano, Owerri, Calabar, and Abuja.
       In Lagos, the placard-bearing protesters
       marched from Yaba through Ikorodu Road
       to Ojota chanting solidarity songs.
       The protesters succeeded in forcing
       vehicular traffic on both sides of the
       expressway to a standstill.
       Co-ordinator of Democratic Socialist
       Movement at the University of Ibadan,
       Michael Ogundele, said there were no better
       ways than mass protests to put political
       pressure on the government.
       Ogundele, said, “There is nothing to show
       that government would fund public
       education, even if ASUU suspends its strike.
       “That is why we are saying that the whole
       rank and file of Nigerian students should
       come out. We will all protest to put political
       pressure on these Nigerian looters to make
       them properly fund education.”
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