Dayo Bush-Alebiosu who is a former two-term member of the House of Representatives, has encouraged academics to always have true representations in policy-making, to address the root causes of incessant strikes by academic unions.
Bush-Alebiosu who had represented Kosofe Federal Constituency between 2007 and 2015, and aspiring to return to the same seat in 2023 had made this remark on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen.
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He spoke after a stakeholder meeting with APC leaders, delegates and members at the party secretariat in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos State, where he wooed delegates for his ambition. The erstwhile lawmaker, who didn’t hide his passion for the development of education to address challenges in the nation, decried the lingering disagreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“You cannot solve a problem without getting to the root of the problem. The first thing to do is to find out and run a diagnosis of what the issue is, and have a sit down.
“I have never seen war resolve any issue. At the end of the day, you will still have to come back to the table.
“This is where the excellence of policy-making comes to place. It is important for the academics to have a true representation at the level of policy-making, that way, they will be able to push a lot of things to represent them.
“As a nation, we cannot be serious without talking about education. I am passionate about education, it is the key that unlocks every problem whether medical, engineering and others,” Bush-Alebiosu said.
According to him, no nation can talk about development without talking about education.
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, had on Wednesday reiterated that there was no going back on the union’s decision to continue with its ongoing strike following the Federal Government’s failure to honour the 2009 agreement.
ASUU on Monday extended its roll-over strike which started on Feb. 14 by another 12 weeks.
