FG To Talk To ASUU Over The Current Strike
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, national president of the Academic Staff Organization of Universities (ASUU), announced that the union will meet with the federal government today to reopen negotiations about the ongoing university teachers’ strike.
Osodeke revealed this while participating in a political discussion on the Channels Television program Politics Today.
The ASUU president stated that if the Federal Government acceded to the union’s requests in today’s meeting, the union would be willing to end the strike.
“If we go into that meeting tomorrow and the government says, what you have bargained for, we are willing to sign, the strike will be called off,” he said.
Remember that the government has yet to mediate a cease-fire with ASUU after the conclusion of the renegotiation meeting chaired by Prof. Nimi Briggs.
After the Briggs committee submitted its findings on ASUU, the president gave the minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, a two-week deadline to respond to the union’s requests.
Osodeke claimed that under the pretense of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system, the government engaged in fraudulent operations by using the university unions.
He said, ‘’We have been shouting all along that IPPIS is a fraud, we have told them that for 16 years they siphoned our money with IPPIS, and they punished our members because of it. Now, they know, some foreign bodies forced it on the people.’’
On February 14, 2022, ASUU went on strike because the federal government had not complied with all of its demands.
Release of funding for university revitalization, revision of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and implementation of the UTAS payment platform for the payment of university lecturers’ wages and allowances are a few of the demands.
