ASUU Must Call Off Strike Over N130 Billion FG Proposal “This Strike’ll Be Suspended” – Benue Governor

August 21, 2013 – ASUU Must Call Off Strike
Over N130 Billion FG Proposal “This Strike
In Nigeria Will Soon Be Suspended” – Benue
Governor
Days after President Jonathan approved N400
Billion injection into the Nigerian Universities, the
offer has been lowered to 130 Billion, a move that
caused ASUU officials to reject the proposal
again for the second time.
According to Benue State Governor Gabriel
Suswam who is the Chairman of the Universities
Needs Implementation Committee, ASUU should
call off its strike based on the N30 billion earned
allowances offer and another N100 billion
promised injection into the infrastructures in the
61 public universities.- He said this to State House
correspondents on Tuesday August 20, 2013.
Nigeria’s Federal Government on Tuesday asked
the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU to
reconsider its rejection of the N130 billion deal it
offered it yesterday to call off the national strike
that has grounded activities in public in
universities across the country for over a month
now.
Negotiation between the Federal Government
team, led by Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue
State and the University lecturers broke down
yesterday after government insisted on the offer
of N30 billion for the earned allowances.
The Government had insisted that it was the
responsibility of the Governing Council of the
Universities to pay the earned allowances.
The offer however was a far cry from the N87
billion the teachers are asking as the cumulated
earned allowances of staff based on the
agreements reached with the Federal Government
in 2009 and ASUU wasted no time in rejecting the
offer.
The Governor added that the federal government
will meet the universities’ councils and vice
chancellors later in the week to brief them on
government decisions and to also certify those
that are really entitled to be paid from the N30
billion to be released for the earned allowances.
When Will ASUU Call Off Strike In Nigeria
This negotiation seems to be going no where.
So when willl ASUU call off strike?
Most Nigerian university students are tired of
staying at home.