The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused agents of the Federal Government of executing what it called a well-planned plot to decimate the nation’s public university system to allow privately-owned ones to thrive.
The union vowed not to allow such a plot to succeed.
It insisted that if strike remained the only language the government understood, it would continue to speak it.
ASUU stated this through its Port Harcourt Zone in a position paper read by its Zonal Coordinator, Stanley Ogoun, at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education.
Ogoun listed agents of the Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Accountant General, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and a Federal Permanent Secretary, as obstacles to resolving its issues with the government
He said Labour and Employment minister, who assumed the role of a conciliator, had failed to perform the role the union expected of him in the face-off between the government and the union.
The ASUU regretted that even the intervention of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari had not yielded any result
He urged members of the public to disregard the claims by the government that it had paid ASUU N50 billion the Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) Revitalisation Funds
ASUU’s chairmen present at the gathering were: Uzoma Chima, University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT); Tonbara Kingdom, Niger Delta University (NDU); Emmanuel Ekwulo, Rivers State University (RSU); Joseph Endurance, Ignatus Ajuru University of Education (IAUE); Socrates Ebo, Federal University, Otuoke (FUO) and Donny Sigah, University of Africa, Toru-Orua.
Also, ASUU has renewed its threat to embark on strike should the Federal Government delay a little further to meet the union’s demands.
Addressing reporters at the Ekiti State University (EKSU) in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, the union’s Akure Zonal Coordinator Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu said the strike became necessary, following Federal Government’s failure to implement the agreement reached with the union in 2009.
The zonal coordinator in charge of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife (Osun State); Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) in Ondo State and EKSU described the Federal Government as insincere for reneging on the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with ASUU on December 23, 2020.
Also, leaders of the Calabar Zone of the union have alerted Nigerians to what it called government’s failure to honour its agreements with ASUU.
Addressing reporters in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the union’s Zonal Coordinator Aniekan Brown recalled that on December 23, 2020, the union “patriotically suspended” its strike after nine months “as an extreme act of goodwill signifying ASUU’s sole-desire to ensure industrial harmony in our public universities while trusting that the Federal Government would fulfil her own end of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) signed then with attached timelines”.
He regretted that nearly one year after, the Federal Government had not fulfilled its promise.
(Punch)
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