The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) says it is ready to negotiate with the federal government
over the ongoing industrial action.
Biodun Ogunyemi, national
president of ASUU, disclosed this to journalists on Wednesday.
The union commenced an indefinite
strike on November 5.
Ogunyemi said the decision was
taken due to the poor funding of universities in the country, failure on the
side of the government to honour the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed
between the union and the federal government in 2017.
He said a meeting with the
federal government delegation had been scheduled for 1pm on Thursday at the
instance of Adamu Adamu, minister of education.
According to him, the N200
billion released by the federal government in September is not an issue but
that sum 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 N
220 billion yearly for five years,” Ogunyemi said.
“If government fails to fund
public universities the situation on campuses may degenerate, worse than the
already poor quality teaching and learning environment.”
The ASUU president said 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.
He added that ASUU is hoping that
the meeting scheduled for Thursday will be used to resolve the issues at stake.
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