Angry mothers and market women under the aegis of Market Women Association of Nigeria today stormed Abuja in protest of the never ending strike by the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU).

The women were led by Madam Felicia Sani who demanded an immediate end to the lingering industrial action.

“ASUU people must not allow themselves to be instrument of chaos in the hands of disgruntled politicians. What they are doing now shows they are becoming politicians. They are making our children to suffer. This is not the way to collect entitlement from government.”

Numbering thousands, the women who first assembled at the Eagles square took to the streets of Abuja and later visited the Ministry of Education and its Labour and Productivity counterpart.
Brandishing various placards with such inscriptions as “ASUU, do not kill our education system,” and “Our children are idle, ASUU take them to classroom”, they sang solidarity songs while appealing to the striking lecturers to go back to class.

They were later addressed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Productivity who assured them that the government was doing everything possible to resolve the lingering crisis with ASUU.