ASUUStrike Update: No salary, No resumption -ASUU

*The Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) has said it will not call off this present
strike until the four months salaries the
government is owing its members are paid. The
union is also calling for an immediate
implementation of the N1.2tn offer by the
Federal Government to Universities, with
immediate release of N100bn this year. The
balance of N1.1tn is then to be spread over five
years from 2014.
These were some of the resolutions reached by
members of the National Executive Council
(NEC) of the union who converged in Kano on
Friday to discuss on whether to call off the
almost-five-months industrial action or not. It
was discussed that they will meet with president
Jonathan on fresh demands. The date for the
new meeting hasn’t been fixed though. SIGH!
According to a source, a strong commitment to
the two demands, among other pending issues,
must be obtained from the President before the
industrial action will be called off by the union.
He said: “The issue now is on trust and we do
not want a situation where promises will not be
kept. The authorities have failed us in the past
and we do not want a repeat of that.
That was why we decided at the NEC meeting
that the government should pay us the arrears
of salaries being owed us since we started the
strike on July1 before the strike can be called
off.
The salaries should not be paid piecemeal. We
also insist that the Federal Government should
start the implementation of the offer made to us
when we met the President some weeks ago.”
My fellow Nigerian students….the saga
continues sadly …… all this yo-yo movement
surrounded by the strike – on-off-on-off – we
wait with bated breathe on a conclusive update
on this ASUU vs Federal Government SAGA.
I suppose its probably fair to say schools are
closed for this year and we go just resume for
2014. I tire.
Sourced: Punchng.com