The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that strike is not imminent, if the Federal Government implements the agreements reached, in the next two weeks.
President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday (NAN).
It would be recalled that ASUU had threatened to embark on
strike over the non-implementation of agreements reached with the federal
government.
The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, had on June
26, invited the union for a meeting to deliberate on the lingering issues
affecting universities and to avert the planned strike.
Osodeke said none of the agreements reached with the Federal
Government had been implemented.
“At the meeting called by the Minister of Education, we
agreed that after two weeks, we will meet to see the progress the government
has made.
“We will also see what we will do next, if the government
fails to implement the agreements reached.
“The meeting in the next two weeks is to see what they have
done which will inform our decision,” he said.
The ASUU president said some of the demands included the non
implementation of the 2009 re-negotiated agreements.
He said the agreements had lingered for over six years and
the government was yet to implement them.
Osodeke said the academic allowances due to their members
had also accumulated for over six years and nothing had been done about it
On the issue of revitalisation funds, he said they agreed on
the NEEDs Assessment Report to raise N200 billion yearly, for five years.
“Since 2013, only one has been paid. We need revitalisation
funds to upgrade our universities to standard, so that we can have students and
lecturers from outside the country,” he said.
Oshodeke added that the government was yet to stop the proliferation
of universities adding that many new universities were being approved without
funds to run them.
He said the government was also yet to exit the university
salary payment from Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System!(IPPIS)
as approved by the Federal Executive Council in January
He said their members were still being paid by IPPIS against
the directive by the FEC.
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