The
Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said the ongoing strike would
not be called off until the Federal Government fully implemented all the offers
it made to the union after their last meeting.
The
public university lecturers said they were tired of Federal Government’s antics
of making unfulfilled promises, insisting that the strike would be called off
after they got tangible evidence and concrete actions that the offers made to
them by the Federal Government had been implemented.
The
National President, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an exclusive
interview with one of Punch correspondents in Lagos on Thursday, said the team of
the union that met with the government on Tuesday did not reach any
agreement with the Federal Government.
Asked
when the strike would then be called off, Ogunyemi said, “Our members said they
want to see evidence of satisfactory implementation of all they have proposed
before the strike can be called off.”
On
Tuesday, ASUU met with the Federal Government officials including the Minister
of Education, Adamu Adamu, as well as his Labour and Employment
counterpart, Chris Ngige.
After
their discussions, Ngige explained what the Federal Government was offering to
the union.
He
said the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Ministry of
Finance had confirmed with evidence that N15.4bn had been released to public
universities.
But
ASUU president recalled that last year, the government promised to release funds
for the revitalisation of public universities, which was one of the demands of
the union, but failed to do so.
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