The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) has commenced an indefinite strike across the nation,
beginning Sunday August 13th, 2017.
According to ASUU President,
Biodun Ogunyemi, the lecturers took the decision to declare the strike after
deliberations at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the
University of Abuja during the weekend.
In a document titled: “Strike
Bulletin No.1”, which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike
action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form
of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct
and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or
thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation’s universities.
The union recalled that it had to
embark on a six month strike between July and December 2013 and the strike was
suspended when government signed an MoU with the union.
“Of all the items contained in
the MoU, only the N200b out of a total of N1.3tr of the Public Universities
Revitalisation (Needs Assessment) fund was released.
“The union also embarked on a one
week warning strike in November 2016 to press for the implementation of 2013
MoU. However government did not implement the understanding reach between the
union and Federal Government base on the intervention by the leadership of
Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The union has also met with the
2009 Agreement Implementation Monitoring Committee, IMC, and had written
several letters press releases and communiqués on the outstanding issues to no
avail.
“The National Executive Council,
NEC, of ASUU then met at the University of Abuja on August 12 2017 to consider
the result of a referendum from all branches in a bid to ascertain ways of
convincing government to implement outstanding aspects of the 2009 and the MoU
of 2013”.
ASUU further listed the
outstanding issues with the Federal Government to include: payment of
fractions/non-payment of salaries; non-payment of earned academic allowances, non-release
of operational license of NUPEMCO; non implementation of the provisions of the
2014 pension reform act with respect to retired professors and their salaries,
removal of universities staff schools from funding by government and funds for
the revitalisation of public universities.
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ASUU are known for strike, so no qualms. This government has to taste one. Greedy set of people.
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