ASUU update

Ahead of today’s meeting with the
Federal Government, President of
the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, Dr. Nasir
Fagge, has declared that the
union will not back down on the
ongoing strike if a compromise is
not reached.
Speaking
to PM
News, Dr. Fagge maintained that
the strike action was not
embarked upon just for the
demands, but for the Federal
Government to honour a Memorandum
of Understanding which it signed
in 2012 with ASUU.
“Who’s talking about demands
here? We presented our demands in
2006 and it took us three years
to get it into an agreement.
“The Federal Government signed an
MOU in 2012, that’s what we are
asking them to honour, period.
The strike action will not
continue only if they implement
the MOU we had last year,” Fagge
said.
He further disclosed that “If we
call off the strike when the MOU
has not been implemented, of what
use was the strike action in the
first place? We are holding on
until everything is sorted out.”
The industrial action by the
lecturers will be forty-nine days
old if ASUU does not reach an
agreement with the Federal
Government at the meeting
scheduled to hold later today.
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