Parents Offer To Help FG Resolve ASUU Strike | SEE HOW

As Nigerian students in public tertiary institutions of learning continue staying at home, owing to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), strike parents are now volunteering to remedy the situation.

The National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) is offering to help the Federal Government, proposing the payment of N10, 000 levy per session for each parent to assist the government in making more funds available for universities.

The proposal was disclosed by NAPTAN’s Public Relations Officer, Dr. Ademola Ekundayo, in an interview with PUNCH on Tuesday.

Ekundayo, who lamented continued closure of universities in the country, said parents were at the receiving ends of the disagreement between the Federal Government and ASUU.

He said, “We have submitted a letter to the Office of the Education Minister, seeking for audience where we hope to discuss a proposal.

“We are proposing a sum of N10, 000 per parent every session that will be directly paid to the universities. That will be our own contribution apart from other statutory payments in making more funds available to the universities.

“It can be called parent support levy for universities. We are at the receiving end of the industrial action. We plead with the ASUU and Federal Government to immediately resolve their differences.”