The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that the way to stop the incessant strike of public tertiary institutions is to ensure that public office holders have their children enrolled in one and not abroad.

According to the zonal coordinator of the union, Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu, the educational sector will be boosted when there is a law that allows for such to be.

“Members of the ruling class and their cohorts have their wards schooling abroad, so they do not commit to ending ASUU strike since the political office has become occupational rather than public service.

“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,” the statement partly read