ASUU STRKE!! Massive jubilation as Buhari finally agrees to meet with striking lecturers
Hope is no the rise for a quick resolution of the ongoing strike action embarked upon by ASUU
after president Buhari instructed the necessary organs of government to meeting the
academics so as to find a lasting resolution to the industrial action.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it is ready to commence negotiations
with the Federal Government to resolve the ongoing strike. ASUU President, Prof. Biodun
Ogunyemi, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ogunyemi said that meeting with the Federal Government delegation has been scheduled for
Thursday, one o’clock at the instance of the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.
According to him, the N200 billion released by the Federal Government in September 2018 is
not an issue but that N200 billion ought to have been released in October 2017 as part of the
2013 agreement.
“It would be recalled that the Federal Government had agreed to inject N1.3 trillion to fund
universities at N220 billion yearly for five years.
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If government fails to fund public universities the situation on campuses may degenerate,
worse than the already poor quality teaching and learning environment,’’ he said.
The ASUU president, however, insisted that the ‘No work no pay’ threats by the government
would not affect the lecturers as the industrial action was legal in Nigerian labour law and
international conventions, which Nigeria is signatory.
He added that ASUU is hoping that the meeting scheduled for Thursday will be used to resolve
the issues at stake and not to continue to raise alarm that past administrations made bogus
agreements with the university lecturers.
It would be recalled that the striking lecturers had resumed their strike on November 5 to press
home their demands.
Some of the demands are that the Federal Government should nominate another chairman of
the government renegotiating team of the 2009 ASUU/Federal Government Agreement.
ASUU had rejected Dr. Wale Babalakin led renegotiating team.
Other demands are non-payment of earned allowance, funding of revitalisation of the Nigerian
universities, implementation of needs assessment report, poor funding of state universities,
among others.
It there hoe that the current strike action will end on time or will it lead to another lengthy round
of negotiations with both sides not willing to concede any ground?
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