The Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU, has
indicated their readiness
to end the prolonged
strike that has crippled
academic activities in all
government owned
universities across Nigeria
for about 5 months. But
this will only happen if the
government of President
Goodluck Jonathan meet
the demands below...
First is to pay the four
months salaries owed its
members by the
government during the
period of the strike.
The union also wants the
immediate implementation
of the N1.2tn offer by the
Government to public
universities, starting with
the release of N100bn this
year. The balance of
N1.1tn is to be spread
over five years from 2014.
These were some of the
resolutions reached by
members of the National
Executive Council of the
union that met in Kano on
Friday to deliberate on
what must be done by
government before the
strike is called off.
"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 July
1, 2013, before the strike
can be called off. The
salaries should not be
paid piecemeal," said a
top source in ASUU.
The ball is now in the
court of the government.
Will they FG pay ASUU for
the months they did not
work?
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