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We're not asking money for our pocket, our demand is infrastructure in varsities - ASUU justifies demand amid crisis

- Academic Staff Union of Universities has justified its demand from the government and the ongoing strike action it embarked upon

- The clarification became necessary following the wide public condemnation of the union's lingering strike

- ASUU said it does not demand money for its pocket, rather it's calling on federal government to provide infrastructure for the public universities

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged members of the public to refute the fast growing insinuation that it is a strike-loving organisation, adding that its demand from the government is purely for the progress of education sector.

The need, it was gathered, was expedient following the wide condemnation from the public on the lingering strike action embarked upon by the body, The Punch reports.

Legit.ng reports that the ASUU chairman of Benin zone, Professor Anthony Monye-Emina, justifying the need for the ongoing strike action on Wednesday, January 23, in Benin, said the failure of the federal government to show full commitment toward the sponsorship of the public universities made the union result to the strike alternative strategy.

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Addressing market women during an interactive and sensitising meeting, the university don said ASUU is on the move to rescue the Nigerian education system from moribund mute, adding that strike action is part of the strategies mapped out against the challenges ahead.

He said the union had written not less than 450 letters to the federal government since the struggle started in 2009.

He said: ''Our society has a wrong impression about ASUU struggle. We are not asking for money to keep in our pockets but for the development of infrastructure in our universities.''

Monye-Emina, however, urged concerned Nigerians to prevail on the ongoing crisis, adding that government must address infrastructural deficit in Nigerian universities to make quality of the country's education system.

He also used the platform to refute the claims that the ongoing strike action of the union is politically motivated.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that ASUU had expressed disappointment over the failure of the federal government to make fresh offer on funding of public universities in the country.

ASUU president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, made this known in a strike bulletin 9 sent to branches of the union on Thursday, January 24, when briefing members of the body on the recent development as regards their pressing demand.

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