Lagos State House of Assembly has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider immediate end to its over four months strike as mark of honour for Professor Festus Iyayi, who died in a ghastly motor accident on Tuesday.
Iyayi, one time President of the ASUU, was on his way to attend the enlarged National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the union when he met his untimely death in an accident that involved the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, in Lokoja.
The Assembly in a statement by Chairman, House Committee on Information, Strategy, Security and Publicity, Segun Olulade, noted that “since Iyayi was on a mission for a peaceful resolution to end the strike, the union should consider ending the strike in honour of their late comrade.”
The statement further noted that the nation is currently undergoing too much travails under the present Federal Government as a result of neglect on basic infrastructure such as road that claimed the life of such literary icon.
It also noted that the Okene-Lokoja highway is a death trap that has claimed thousands of lives of innocent Nigerians before the ugly incident.
The Assembly, however, cautioned on reckless driving attitude of convoys on the entourage of most state Governors and politicians, urging them to take a queue from modest use of convoy by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State.
The Assembly therefore appealed to ASUU to consider the plights of students and the need to restore education to its lost glory by ending the strike to save the education sector.
It expressed fears that “the circumstance that led to Iyayi’s death, if care is not taken, could take a new dimension of agitation and spur reflex actions from the aggrieved lecturers, thereby extending further the strike that was already close to being called off as at the time of Iyayi’s death.”
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