‘Lecturers envy our paychecks’ – Senator

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A Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has admitted that their over bloated wages are a source of envy and discontentment to lecturers in the country, and that it is one of the reasons for  the ASUU strike.

The senator made the disclosure to a reporter for THISDAY in Abuja.

His words: “I believe what we (Senators) earn is not justifiable. That is why ASUU is making unnecessary demands. I wonder why the federal government should reach an agreement with them on such demands. These are demands that are not made by lecturers anywhere in the world. If they are asking for well equipped libraries, laboratories or more conducive learning environment, it would have been understandable. But everything is about themselves.

“How can they be asking for extra pay because they have large classes? Is it not their responsibilities to teach whether a class is large or not? And in any case, who admitted the large class? But they are making these demands just because they know what we earn,” he disclosed.

In a separate interview, one Senator Sola Akinyede said government had to critically look at the issue of reducing their salaries in order for there to be resources for meaning economic development in the country.

Akinyede said in that interview, “High cost of governance does not only affect the executive, it also affects the legislature and the judiciary. I think what we should do is that heads of the three organs of government at every level along with leaderships of political parties should sit down and agree on how to reduce the cost of governance.

“Honestly, l think it’s unfair. I’m also guilty of it because l benefited from it as a senator. It’s unfair for us elite to arrogate so much of the country’s resources to ourselves and still expect economic development,” Akinyede added.

 

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