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Strike: SERAP, Students Sue President Buhari, Others Over ASUU Demands

Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and five undergraduates have sued President Muhammadu Buhari and two others over alleged unlawful refusal by the Federal Government to meet the demands of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Joined in the suit as defendants are Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and Attorney-General of the Federation/Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN).

The students, who are co-claimants in the suit, include Dongo Daniel Davou of Plateau State University; Oyebode Joshua Babafemi of Obafemi Awolowo University; Ejie Kemkanma of the University of Port Harcourt; Peter Itohowo Aniefiok of University of Uyo and Imam Naziru of the University of Ibadan.

According to them, the refusal has occasioned the prolonged strike action and violated their right to quality education.

In the suit, numbered NICN/ABJ/269/2022 and filed last week by their lawyer, Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), at the National Industrial Court, Abuja, the plaintiffs are seeking an order directing Buhari and Ngige to immediately implement all agreements with ASUU to end the strike action and violation of the student’s right to learning.

They said the disruption of classes undermines both the quality and duration of students’ education.

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This situation, the applicants maintained, had aggravated existing disparities in access to university education in the country, further marginalizing economically disadvantaged parents and students.

SERAP and the students want the court to declare that the “refusal of the defendants to implement the terms of the FGN-ASUU Renegotiated 2009 Agreements and the 2020 Memorandum of Action, which has occasioned the prolonged strike action is unlawful, inconsistent, and incompatible with Nigeria’s human rights obligations and violates the students’ right to quality education.”

They also want a court order mandating the defendants and their agents to immediately release and pay all the withheld and outstanding remunerations, salary, allowances, and other emoluments both for the period and outside the period of the current strike action to all members of ASUU.

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