ASUU Threatens To Go On Strike Again

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that its individuals ought not be considered mindful if there is any disturbance in the University framework, as the Federal Government had not appeared at completing the 2019 Memorandum of Action.

ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, expressed this at an instructions in Abuja, to give a report on the progressing renegotiation with the administration and to dispel any confusion air over the N25billion affirmed by the Minister of Education, Adamu, to have been endorsed for colleges. Ogunyemi said the N25billion was intended to be a section installment of the Earned Academic Allowances and ought to have been discharged between February 15 and 28, 2019, as concurred. In any case, this was not done.

He stated, "Since data on the sums referenced in the media went round, the ASUU has been immersed with enquiries on the association's point of view to the story. Subsidizing for the revitalisation of state funded colleges has for quite a long time been of high need to ASUU.

"Achieving a concurrence with the Federal Government has regularly been a disappointing adventure for our association. Usually set apart with dissents, strikes and requires a cognizant and centered commitment. The 2001 understanding, which brought forth the 2009 understanding, was not an exclusion. The special case here is the identity driving the administration arrangement group. The present administration of the administration group plainly comes up short on the scholastic manner and quietude expected to attempt such errand.

Our individuals make the most of their work and hate to perceive any interruption in the smooth running of our colleges. Be that as it may, the dimension of dissatisfaction occasioned by the languid demeanor of the legislature towards gathering the terms of the 2019 Memorandum of Action that was uninhibitedly marked with our association is progressively getting to be terrible.

"We, along these lines, approach every Nigerian loyalist, guardians and understudies including the Nigeria Labor Congress to win on the legislature to keep to the terms of our understanding. Something else, our association ought not be considered in charge of any disturbance in the framework."