71-Year Old Man Sues ASUU For Delaying Daughter’s Education

Apparently fed up with the more than two month
long Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
strike, Mallam Dankano Garba Ahmed, a 71-year-
old pensioner in Kano State, has instituted a case
in court against the academic body and eight
others.
The pensioner, who took his grouse to the National
Industrial Court of Nigeria in the case with suit
number NICN/KN/161/2013, said the strike is
having a negative impact on the education of his
daughter who is a 400 level Civil Engineering
student at the Bayero University in Kano.
In the affidavit in support of the originating
summon, the pensioner reportedly accused the
union of frustrating his efforts to get his daughter,
Zainab Garba Ahmed, out of school within the
stipulated time.
“The strike by the union is making my daughter
who is the second plaintiff, idle, disorganized and
psychologically disturbed. Being a 71- year-old
man who earns less than N30,000 as pension, the
strike of the union irritates me,” he said.