It was uncertain on Saturday whether the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities would call off its five-month-old strike, despite the Federal Government’s Monday ultimatum.
There were speculations that the university lecturers would suspend the strike after the burial ceremony for an ex-ASUU President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who was killed in an accident involving the Kogi State governor’s convoy.
However, sources in the union who spoke to our correspondents on Saturday insisted that the strike continues.
The Chairman, ASUU, University of Benin, Dr. Tony Monye-Emina said, “The strike has not been called off. The authority (of the institution) is following government’s directive; we are not shifting our stand. It is not a local strike.
“It is not true we are calling off the strike. How can we be holding a meeting tonight? The burial is going on and it continues tomorrow (today).”
Also, ASUU in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, vowed not to obey government’s order that lecturers should return to classroom on Monday.
The Chairman, ASUU, OOU chapter, Dr. Nasir Adesola said the lecturers would not succumb to threats by government to sack them.
Adesola, who is also the South-West Coordinator, ASUU, stressed that since the lecturers did not go on strike in the first instance because of government, they would not return to work by coercion from government.
He stated that the lecturers would only go back to the classroom when the government had met their demands.
“We didn’t go on strike because of government order. The reasons for which we embarked on the strike have not been discharged by the government. Those orders of government are just part of executive recklessness. We are not returning to work on Monday,” Adesola said.
Similarly, the ASUU Chairman in Enugu State University of Technology, Prof. Gab Agu, said lecturers would not resume on Monday. He said it was a rumour that the union would call of the strike.
He stated that the National Executive Council of ASUU would meet and agree before the strike could be called off.
Same with ASUU in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where the Chairman, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, said only the ASUU NEC could announce the suspension of the strike.
The Governing Council of the University of Ibadan had on Friday, based on the directives of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities and the National Universities Commission, said the institution would be re-opened on January 4, 2014.
In the official bulletin of the university, which was signed by its Registrar and Secretary to the Council, Mr. Olujimi Olukoya, the council explained that the re-opening became necessary in view of the consideration of all matters relating to the on-going ASUU strike, at its recent meeting. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Has It Not Become Visible to sensible people that ASUU is now compromising the Education of our Children for political gains ???????????
ReplyDeleteIf Others will not resume I will resume on monday 09/12/13 period. I will deliver lecture on the same day for our students have really suffered. ASUU leadership is no longer sensitive to the plight of the students. I urge my colleagues to resume as well. Though Govt may not have met our demands, lets do it for posterity. If Govt deliberately want to kill public tertiary instituti
ReplyDeleteon to pave way for private institution do we join her. In the long run it is some of us who will not be able to send our children to private Universities.
ASUU........, tis quite a pity. I had a lot of respects for u bt I wonder what u are doing now! I hope it might nt be an overstatement to say "U ARE HEARTLESS". Why nt bow exit when the ovation is loudest. What legacy hv u and ur NECS LEFF FOR POSTERITY? Absolutely pain and nothingness. BETTER HV A RETHINK ASUU
ReplyDeleteWe all now understand that FG does not mind to equipe and deverlop our public universities. ASUU, let manage the available equipment on ground, and call off the strike.
ReplyDeleteDis FG ¶ƨ̣̣̣̇̇̇̇ very heartless. I just pity dis people cos if they resume after al dis months and ha still not paid then they al suffered for nothing both d lectures and d student. I want dem 2 resume Ooº°˚˚ but not 2 waste 6month either fighting for nothing
ReplyDeleteThis kind of pathetic comments from anonymous people is what ia bedeviling our society and will continue to. How many of you have even bothered to find our what ASUU is fighting for? How many of you have even bothered to study the agreement govt signed with ASUU? It just pathetic that most will prefer to swim in poverty than to fight for progress.
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