The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Akure zone, has said the solution to regular strikes is to formulate a law restricting public officers from sending their children overseas to study.
In a statement, Coordinator of the Akure zone, Olufayo Olu-Olu, said such a law, if enacted, would help to restructure the education sector.
The statement partly read: “Until we domesticate two very important practices as laws in Nigeria, we may not get out of this doldrums -first, an act to compel all public office holders and government appointees to have their wards educated in Nigeria public schools from primary to tertiary level.
“Secondly, an act to compel all political office holders, appointees and their dependents prohibiting them from seeking medical intervention outside Nigeria. When these two laws are enacted, perhaps we will gradually see the end of needless ASUU strikes in the country.
“Until such a time when the government does the needful (our ivory towers properly funded, our withheld emoluments paid amongst other issues), the struggle continues.”