ASUU extends strike by 8 weeks
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing strike action by eight weeks.
This was contained in a statement signed by ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, issued at the end of Sunday’s emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee at the body’s national secretariat.
ASUU accused the government of continuing in the “unconscionable, mindless, and nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian ruling elite towards” education.
The body also said they were not satisfied after their meetings with the government.
“NEC viewed Government’s response, so far, as a continuation of the unconscionable, mindless, and nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian ruling elite towards the proven path of national development which is education.
“NEC acknowledged the intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine national development (students, parents, journalists, trade union leaders, civil society activists etc.) to expeditiously resolve the crisis which Government’s disposition had allowed to fester. However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic obligations to make governments honour agreements,
“NEC, having taken reports on the engagements of the Trustees and Principal Officers with the Government concluded that Government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight (8) weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible. The roll-over strike shall commence by 12.01am on Monday, 14th March, 2022,” the statement said.
ASUU had first declared a strike action on February 13 over “government’s failure to
satisfactorily implement the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with the Union in December 2020 on funding for revitalization of public universities (both Federal and States), renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), Earned Academic Allowances, State Universities, promotion arrears,
withheld salaries, and non-remittance of third-party deductions.”
