Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), says federal bureaucrats are “throwing wedges” into the
union’s negotiations with the government.
On Monday, ASUU extended its ongoing strike by four weeks.
The strike, which the union embarked on on February 16, was
reportedly due to the government’s failure to fully address its demands.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme,
on Tuesday, Osodeke said negotiations with the government have not been
fruitful owing to actions of some government officials at the federal level.
He said a worker at the National Salaries, Income and Wages
Commission (NSIWC), a government establishment supervised by the ministry of
finance, reportedly lied to the government that ASUU threw him out of one of
the negotiations.
The ASUU president said actions like this have made
negotiations with the federal government futile; hence the reason the strike
lingers.
“We would finish the process and conclude negotiations, but
all we would hear is that ASUU chased out some officials. one Mr Zara in
National Salaries, Income and Wages, went and lied to the government that we
chased him out of meetings,” he said.
“The good thing is
that we have all the minutes of the meeting where he attended each of them but
he went and lie to just scatter the process. That’s what they have been doing.
“The people scattering these things, not even the political
elites, are the bureaucrats. ‘Why would you tell the government that they
chased you out of negotiation when you know it’s a lie.
“This is how they keep on putting wedges. We will finish and
they will throw wedges on it. And that is why we are where we are today.”
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