The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to sue the
Federal Government over the registration of the Congress of Nigerian
Universities Academics and the National Association of Medical and Dental
Academics.
ASUU’s lawyer, Femi Falana, said this on Channels
Television, on Thursday.
The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, had on
Tuesday presented certificates of registration to CONUA and NAMDA.
Ngige, who spoke while presenting the certificate of
registration to the two unions, explained that the two bodies will exist along
aside ASUU.
ASUU has been on strike since February 14, 2022, as lecturers
of public universities protest unpaid allowances and demand better welfare
package from the Federal Government.
Speaking with Channels Television, the lead counsel to ASUU,
Falana noted that the union would sue the Federal Government over the
registration of the two unions.
“ASUU is going to court. It is going to be the NIC,” Falana
said.
A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, in an interview with Arise Television also
accused Ngige of complicating matters.
“He took the matter to the industrial court and the decision
has been appealed by ASUU and now, he has registered two unions while trying to
proscribe ASUU. If this is allowed by this government, I think it is a recipe
for disaster and it may really create more problems than it can solve on this
matter of strike action,” Jega had said.
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