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Why we declared indefinite strike – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has explained it declared an indefinite strike due to the federal government’s deceit while negotiating with it. The university lecturers’ union Monday extended its ongoing strike, begun since February.

Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of ASUU, said their declaring a total strike aimed at saving public universities.

He said: “In view of the foregoing, and following extensive deliberations on government’s response to the resolution of February 14, 2022, so far, NEC concluded that the demands of the union had not been satisfactorily addressed.

“Consequently, NEC resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action beginning from 12.01a.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022.”

The union said the federal government had engaged it in an ‘unending negotiation in the last five years without a display of utmost fidelity.’ The body excoriated the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu for misrepresenting facts.

“The draft renegotiated FGN-ASUU Agreement (second draft) remains unsigned; the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) has not been adopted and deployed to replace the discredited Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

“The White Papers on Visitation Panels to federal universities, if ready as claimed by government more than six months ago, are nowhere to be found.” ASUU also said the government had failed to give the balance of one tranche of the Universities Revitalisation Fund more than one year after it promised to do so, and the outstanding two tranches of the Earned Academic Allowances.

The union solicited “the understanding, solidarity and sacrifices of all to ensure that every qualified Nigerian youth who cannot afford the cost of private university education or foreign studies has unhindered access to quality university education.”

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