According to Information Nigeria,
Mallam Dankano Garba Ahmed, a 71-year-old
pensioner from Kano State, in a suit submitted to the
National Industrial Court of Nigeria laments that the
ongoing strike is negatively affecting his daughter's
education.
The elderly man accused the union of frustrating his
efforts to get his daughter, Zainab Garba Ahmed, a
400 level Civil Engineering student at the Bayero
University, Kano, out of school within the determined
time. He said that the strike irritates him, as he earns
less than N30,000 as pension and furthermore, has
other children he would wish to support financially;
this, he stated, depends on whether his daughter
graduates successfully.
He added that the strike is making his daughter, who
is the second plaintiff, idle, disorganised and
psychologically disturbed. "Her future and that of
thousand others across the country are being
stagnated strategically by the ongoing strike," he
decried.
The court is asked to determine if the 21 October 2009
agreement, concluded between ASUU and the Federal
Government, is valid and not illegal. If found otherwise,
the pensioner asks the court to define whether ASUU
has a right to commence strike for failure or refusal
of the Federal Government to implement the said
agreement.
He seeks perpetual injunction restraining ASUU from
continuing with the strike or taking any action
whatsoever and by whatever means to enforce the said
agreement or compel the Federal Government to
implement it.
The case comes up today, September 18, 2013, at the
Kano division of National Industrial Court.
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