Oloyede made the plea on Saturday, August 6, while monitoring the 2022 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
By Kehinde Okeowo
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has called on striking lecturers to reach an amicable settlement with the federal government on the ongoing strike.
Oloyede made the plea on Saturday, August 6, while monitoring the 2022 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
According to NAN, over 42,000 candidates took part in the examination conducted in 45 centres in five states for candidates who missed the nationwide test which was held in May.
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Oloyede who pleaded with the parties involved in the dispute to reach a truce for the sake of the students, however, opined that calling off the strike is not a guarantee that it will not happen again.
He said, “I appeal to ASUU, I appeal to government,” Professor Oloyede said. “Please solve the problem so our children can go back to school.
“Even if ASUU goes back to the classroom, that will not prevent it from happening tomorrow.
He said, “I believe that what we should do is to look at the system and take some hard decisions.
“If we do not take such decisions, then we may be postponing the evil day.”
In a related development, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has described the figure that ASUU is demanding as outrageous, appealing to parents of students to intervene.
He said this on Friday, August 5, during an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television
“ASUU’s proposal is N1.2trillion. Their former N412blllion was 50 percent of the total wage structure of the federal government.
“I will tell parents and everybody, go and beg ASUU”, Keyamo advised
The industrial action started on February 14 and the federal government is yet to reach an agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
