The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has made a case for the introduction of socialist welfare system of the government in Nigeria, noting that the system would take radical and effective measures to substantively elevate the level of the welfare of the poor, liberally and generously in the country.
ASUU National President, Dr Nasir Isa who made this known in Calabar while addressing journalists after its National Executive meeting held at the University of Calabar said “the very first step that is required to address the challenges which flow mostly from the character of the dynamic of global capitalism into which Nigeria is embedded, by instituting a socialist welfare state in Nigeria.
While noting that the Nigeria polity is called a federation which is actually operated like a monarchy as against the Republic it is called, the ASUU president said, “the ruling class keeps sermonizing about true federalism, but that in reality, what counts as ‘ true federalism’ is a dispute, a subject of controversy determined by calculation of the need of each ethnic wing of the ruling class for grabbing wealth, political and economic domination.”
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