ASUU’s strike not about salary reward – Don A lecturer at the University of Abuja,Prof. Femi Odekunle, says the current ASUUstrike is not about salary or benefits butabout ensuring an effective universitysystem.Odekunle on Friday in Abuja said that theclaim by the Federal Government that someof the agreements reached between theunion and government were notimplementable was untrue.“I do not believe that any agreementsreached are not implementable, otherwisethey would not even have been reached inthe first place.“And these issues that ASUU is fighting forhave to do with infrastructure, funding andconducive environment for learning and allcapture such nuts and bolts that drive thesystem.’’ “So the claim by anyone to say that certainaspects of the agreement are notimplementable is fraudulent.“If the Federal Government can put fundsinto the National Assembly in terms ofsalary and allowances, why can’t it do thesame for education that produces themanpower for the development of thenation.’’Odekunle accused the Federal Governmentof employing tactics that were creatingdivision between ASUU and management ofuniversities by its sudden increase of vice-hancellors’ salaries and allowances.The don, who noted that some lecturerswere also culpable in contributing to thesector’s decay, noted, however, thatmajority of the the lecturers were seriousand committed.He said that government should addressissues, including the misuse of resources,corruption of the political and governmentclass, high cost of governance and otherissues that had continued to have adverseeffects on the country’s development.Odekunle advised the government toaddress the ASUU strike from its root causeand not to “play politics and games withour children’s future’’. (NAN)