COEASU former National President, Mr, Remi Makinde said it would have been commendable if Wike was appointed as “Special Adviser to the President on Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s matter” rather than putting him in a position that decides the future of all Nigerian students.
Makinde said Wike is a lawyer, who only knows laws, and also interested in helping the Presidency to fight Amaechi instead of looking for ways to tackle all the challenges in the education sector.
The lecturers showed their grievances against the ongoing COEASU strike which has entered its fourth month during a protest staged at the institution’s gate and led by its Chapter Chairman, Dr. Samuel Akintunde
The protesters were seen carrying placards with different inscriptions such as “IPPIS is repugnant, FG stop it” “Jonathan should respond to the cries of the masses” “F.G should save education from drowning”
There was a minor disruption of the protest as men of the Nigerian Police led by CSP Emmanuel Okoi, preventing the workers from disrupting the free flow of vehicles at Akure- Ondo-Ore-Lagos road which is opposite the college.
The Police later settled with the workers as the lecturers resolved to stage the protest at the college’s gate.
Akintunde lecturers were protesting to liberate colleges of education and to improve the academic standard of the students.
He said the federal government has abandoned teachers’ education completely, adding that none of the 10 issues raised by the union has been solved.
The COEASU chairman noted that the federal government has been showing unserious attitude, stressing that the government has only met with the lecturers just two times and on that two occasions it was different group who represented the government on the dialogue table.
His words, “Our fight is about bringing up quality education in Nigeria. The federal government dialogued with University sector when they came up with their demands but has neglected other groups in the education sector. If you visit any of the college of education, you will discover that we are working with obsolete tools. We are saying that it is high time all these things changed. Secondary schools workshops and laboratories are better than those ones in Nigeria’s Colleges of Education
“We have tabled 10 issues that can make education move forward but the federal government has turned a deaf ear to those issues. We are ready to work, but they have been delaying us from working and since the best approach they know is strike, we will continue to sit at home until they meet with our demands”
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