The family of the late former President
of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), Prof. Festus Iyayi,
yesterday, disassociated themselves
from the N50billion demand from the
Kogi State government over the death
of their son, saying that no amount of
money can compensate for the loss.
Meanwhile the Coalition to Save
Nigeria (CSN) has appealed to the
striking ASUU members to call off the
strike action as a mark of respect for
Prof.Iyayi.
It would be recalled that the Onojie of
Ugbegun, home town of late Prof Iyayi,
had demanded the sum of N50bilion as
compensation for the death of their
son.
However, Prof. Robert Ebewale, a
cousin to the deceased, told Vanguard
yesterday that it was embarrassing to
try to equate the life of Prof Iyayi with
money, saying that the family was
embarrassed with N50billion demand.
“No amount of money can be
compared with the life of that calibre
of person, so we want to disassociate
our family with that. It is
embarrassing to us,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the Coalition to Save
Nigeria (CSN) received with shock the
death of Prof. Iyayi, Prof. Iyayi was an
accomplished academic, author and
unionist and a detribalized Nigerian
who gave voice to the voiceless and
defended the defenceless against
arbitrariness and impunity by our
public officers.
“With his death, the Nigerian
revolutionary movement has been
decapitated as Prof. Iyayi was one of
the movement’s brain boxes in the
struggle for a better Nigeria where
equity, fairness and justice will reign.
We have lost a committed comrade
and an icon of the struggle for an
egalitarian Nigeria. He was a true and
authentic comrade who devoted his
entire life to the struggle and died
fighting for educational justice for the
present and future generations of
Nigerian students,” it stated.
The statement added: “We call on
ASUU and the federal government to
speedily resolve the remaining grey
areas in their disagreement to enable
the suspension of the current ASUU
strike as a mark of respect to Prof.
Iyayi”.
of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), Prof. Festus Iyayi,
yesterday, disassociated themselves
from the N50billion demand from the
Kogi State government over the death
of their son, saying that no amount of
money can compensate for the loss.
Meanwhile the Coalition to Save
Nigeria (CSN) has appealed to the
striking ASUU members to call off the
strike action as a mark of respect for
Prof.Iyayi.
It would be recalled that the Onojie of
Ugbegun, home town of late Prof Iyayi,
had demanded the sum of N50bilion as
compensation for the death of their
son.
However, Prof. Robert Ebewale, a
cousin to the deceased, told Vanguard
yesterday that it was embarrassing to
try to equate the life of Prof Iyayi with
money, saying that the family was
embarrassed with N50billion demand.
“No amount of money can be
compared with the life of that calibre
of person, so we want to disassociate
our family with that. It is
embarrassing to us,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the Coalition to Save
Nigeria (CSN) received with shock the
death of Prof. Iyayi, Prof. Iyayi was an
accomplished academic, author and
unionist and a detribalized Nigerian
who gave voice to the voiceless and
defended the defenceless against
arbitrariness and impunity by our
public officers.
“With his death, the Nigerian
revolutionary movement has been
decapitated as Prof. Iyayi was one of
the movement’s brain boxes in the
struggle for a better Nigeria where
equity, fairness and justice will reign.
We have lost a committed comrade
and an icon of the struggle for an
egalitarian Nigeria. He was a true and
authentic comrade who devoted his
entire life to the struggle and died
fighting for educational justice for the
present and future generations of
Nigerian students,” it stated.
The statement added: “We call on
ASUU and the federal government to
speedily resolve the remaining grey
areas in their disagreement to enable
the suspension of the current ASUU
strike as a mark of respect to Prof.
Iyayi”.
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