ASUU Declares Indefinite Strike
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a total and indefinite
strike.
ASUU National Executive Council would meet on Sunday to take
a decision over the government’s lackadaisical attitude toward the demands and
plight of lecturers.
Meanwhile, a meeting between ASUU executives
and the Federal Government’s Nimi Briggs committee on August 16, 2022, ended in
deadlock.
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In a statement titled, ‘ASUU strikes are to save public
universities,’ and signed by ASUU National President, Prof, Emmanuel Osodeke,
said NEC observed with regret that the union had experienced a lot of deceit at
the highest level in the last five and half years, saying the FG engaged ASUU in
fruitless and unending negotiation without a display of utmost fidelity.
It read, ‘‘In view of the foregoing, and following extensive
deliberations on government’s response to the resolution of 14th February 2022,
so far, NEC concluded that the demands of the union had not been satisfactorily
addressed. Consequently, NEC resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a
comprehensive, total, and indefinite strike action beginning from 12.01 a.m
Monday 29th August 2022.
‘‘NEC acknowledges with appreciation past
and current efforts by eminent Nigerians and groups to mediate in the lingering
crisis. Our union remains open to reasonable engagements as we have always done.
However, ASUU remains focused on the full implementation of the 23rd December
2020 Memorandum of Action for quick restoration of industrial harmony in
Nigeria’s public universities.
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It added that ‘‘NEC noted with pains,
its concerns for Nigerians students who are also our wards and foster children
and condemned government’s seeming indifference to their plights. Were it within
our control, our universities would never have been shut for one day. ‘’
ASUU
commenced its ongoing strike on February 14, 2022, after the Federal Government
refused to meet some of its demands including, the release of revitalization
funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of
earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the UTAS payment
platform for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers.
Who go resolve the crisis between ASUU and federal government like this?
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