The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will
continue its ongoing two-week strike, despite the federal government’s new
proposals to the lecturers.
The union commenced the warning strike on March 9, 2020
after disagreement with the government over issues of revitalization of
universities, earned academic allowance.
Others are visitation panel, mainstreaming and most
importantly the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and
also other issues relating to university funding.
According to NAN, the federal government offered fresh
proposals to ASUU during a meeting between delegates from both camps on
Tuesday.
Chris Ngige, minister of labour, said both parties had
fruitful deliberations on contentious issues, especially the issue of IPPIS.
“The meeting was longer than anticipated because we had to
look at all the issues that were in our 2019 Memorandum of Actions, especially
those that had not been fully addressed. We made new proposal on behalf of FG
to ASUU,” he said.
“These issues range from funding, revitalization of public
universities, earned academic allowances, salary shortfalls in Federal
University of Akure and the issue of state universities.”
The minister said the federal government would be expecting
the response of ASUU after meeting with its executives.
“We have agreed on tentative date to get back to government
is before the weekend runs out. We expect ASUU to write the government before
then to see if there will be need for further meeting,” he said.
Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU president, also confirmed that the
federal government had made new proposals as regards issues raised by the
union.
He said the meeting was an improvement over the previous one
the union had with the government, adding that ASUU would discuss the decisions
reached at the meeting with its members.
“But as we usually say, those of us here cannot give the
final pronouncements on any of the proposals and we have assured the government
that we will report faithfully to our principals and get back to government
accordingly,” he said.
This is the second meeting between ASUU and the federal
government.
During their first meeting in Abuja, both parties were said
to have reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to merge UTAS and IPPIS.
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